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RAM RUMBLES User group

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A few months ago I attended
the launch of CompuServe In
Australia at Fujitsu's head office
here in Sydney. It sure was an
Interesting press conference,
with the vast majority in altcn-
dence unfamiliar with the ser-
vice, and mainly representing
some kind of business PC publi-
cation. And here 1 was, editor of
one of the only home computer
magazines in Australia and we're
being told CompuServe is used
mainly by home computer users.
So, I started asking questions.
How many modem owners are
there in Australia who might use
this service? No comment. Why
will this succeed when Discovery 40 and Discovery 80 of-
fered by Commodore seem to be failing in the home market?
Answer, because CompuServe is better. Problem is. at the
moment, it's not much cheaper. To prove the point, Fujitsu
offered all in attendance the option of a four week free trial
password to the system. Not surprisingly, only a few accept-
ed this once- in -a -life- time offer.

After that four weeks of use, I can honestly say Compu-
Serve is much better than anything we have here. The trick
is, CompuServe doesn't try to be an electronic alternative to
every day informaUon sources. Instead, the service offers in-
formation you can't get any other way. It also offers powerful
research capabilities to access information you can normally
find In a set of reference books - only using a computer you
can find it much faster. Telecom think that people are going
to queue up to pay for database search facilities for an elec-
tronic version of the white and yellow pages. Now some wcll-
Lo-do business people who are not feeling the crunch of Aus-
tralia's current economic climate might jump at that sort of
thing, but the mass market appeal is very limited.

For a start, a phone book is about as fast, by the time
you go to the right Discovery page, type in the name at 75
baud - if you're unfortunate enough to still be using the Di-
covery 40 service - then wait while it finds the name. Once
you have il, it's still not as good as the phone book. You
can't doodle on il as you speak to someone. You can't stand
on it to reach high shelves, flatten bent pictures, biffo a
friend over the head or throw on the fire for heat when it's
out of date. Somehow it's little wonder people don't want to
pay $40 an hour for such a service. If you're not on line
when you decide you want the number, you've also got to
wait while the computer dials in and you find your pass-
word, type it in and wait whilst you get logged on.

CompuServe is different. It offers catalogues of products
that don't come in catalogues, you can play with car models,
mix and match features and find out a price, you can get
transcripts from television shows, look up an ency-
elope?adia, check out a reference listing on newspaper sto-
ries over the past ten years, lalk to a special interest group
about anything from computers lo pcL rabbits. Let's hope
Fujitsu does kick off CompuServe here in a big way. If it
works, the gateway to the American service Fujitsu will be
offering may be improved to include some information held
in a locally maintained computer system. No doubt, with
enough users, there would soon be good reason to add some
local service providers too. In case your wondering, Compu-
Serve is purely text based. You don't have to waste time wait-
ing for prctLy graphics to appear. To help make the system
easier 10 use, there are a number of front end packages
which let you choose what you want before you login. Once
you're connected, the program grabs the messages and files
you want in one hit. With CompuServe available in Australia
soon, maybe Telecom will improve their own system and
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Commodore and Amiga Review.

Now to kick things off - the incred-
ible finding that O.T.C. have not one
but several Amigas chugging away.

One machine has an AT b ridge -
board which captures data from a
larger computer regarding every over-
seas call made by means of a special
program and an 8-port serial card.
This is transferred to the Amiga and
recorded onto one of two 600Mb opti-
cal drives, with a 600Mb Fujitsu hard
drive handling primary storage re-
quirements. When a customer com-
plaint Is received, O.T.C. can interro-
gate the Amiga to find out what
problems occured at the same time as
the reported difficulty in a bid to lo-
cate the cause of the fault.

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world map with a Hashing red dot pin
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event of an earthquake or other disas-
ter which leads to a mass call failure
- hundreds of phone links banking up
with nowhere to go.

Yes, it's all done on the Amiga.
More on this installation soon!

Ground Zero

On the 18th of March, Ground
Zero was about gas testing at Mara-
linga. In the movie we see a man
loading up a banking program on a
1541 disk drive. Unfortunately the
computer was obscured by darkness -
but it must have been a C64 or CI 28,
according to our informant Mr A.
Gromly of Walkerville, S.A.

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Commodore were obviously miss-
ing from this event, apart from a
smallish stand operated by the Hard

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Disk Cafe. Congratulations folks on a
great effort at die show, but surely
Commodore's range of machines
aren't so unique that they can sit
back and happily rely on their own
show - World of Commodore, July 1 2
- 14. Many other manufacturers
showed off publishing, presentation
and animation packages. Indeed,
many stands had live presentations
rolling aH day. The Amiga could have
turned a few heads at this event.

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Cursor Curses
Commodore Review

In the April Cursor newsletter of
the Commodore Computer Users
Group Qld Inc. the librarian ever so
tactfully points out that in his hum-
ble opinion our magazine rates a
mere 2 out of 10. He also observes
that our covers are always atrocious,
and that we never print the year on
the cover - a real annoyance for a li-
brarian.

Continued on p6

Z&m UPDATE^
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This update column is com-
ing to you from thousands of
miles away. Once again, I am
in the UK searching out the
latest and greatest in software
to bring back to Australia for
Pactronics to distribute.

In education software, we
have a brilliant new education-
al adventure, RODY AND MAS-
TICO. Kids love it, because
they can control their charac-
ters, colour in the screens,
save screens, load screens and
print them out. It's a brilliant,
full colour, icon controlled
game that teaches as you playl

Books, books and more
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He also states that our program
listings are always suspect - strange
considering over the last year or
more most of the listings we have
printed were provided by the Club's
President, Greg Perry,

As for our covers, point taken,
but then we've always prided our-
selves in great editorial which has
made possible our survival and in-
deed amazing growth over the past
eight or more years of publication.
We're working on the covers - see the
last couple of issues!

As for the measly 2 out of 1 rat-
ing. I refer to the comment which ap-
pears on the very next facing page
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News

SpectraColor

Software company OXXI
have released a new HAM
paint package complete
with brush animation capa-
bilities. The package looks
a lot like Photon Paint, but
there are a host of new fea-
tures. You can easily create
a curved path for anima-
tions, or alter the shape of
a brush during the anima-
tion. SpectraColor tweens,
morphs and animates - the
only HAM animation pack-
age in its class according to
OXXI - do they know about
Deluxe Paint IV?

The program will sell in
Australia for under $150.
For more info call Compu-
termate on (02) 457 8388.

1 930 Monitor

Now available here for
$649, this Commodore mon-
itor is VGA, not multi-scan
(whereas the 1950 is multi-
scan).

A multiscan monitor can
do all that a VGA monitor
can do, but can also do low-
er resolutions, somewhat
useful on a machine like the
Amiga with its many possi-
ble display modes (if you're
going to use them), and the
possibility of programming
the chip which handles dis-
play.

Deluxe Paint IV

Still more improve-
ments have been made to
the paint program other
paint programs are meas-
ured by. Electronic Arts
have finally integrated
some of the features pre-
viously bestowed upon
the boring old MS-DOS
version. You can now ex-

pect some much slicker
graduated fills and anti-
aliasing. There's also sup-
port for HAM and produc-
tivity modes, along with
a special light-box feature
for creating hand drawn
cartoon animations simi-
lar to Disney's Animation
Studio.

The whole look and
feel of the program has
been brought in line with
Workbench 2.0, and
there's better control
over animations. Expect
to see a release around
the middle of this year.

Schools offered
Amiga package
deals

In another bid to ac-
quire a bigger slice of the
educational market. Com-
modore are offering a range
of packages to schools at
extraordinarily good prices.

Including monitor - you
can get:

• Amiga Deluxe Pack for
$1290

• A2000 Pro Pack for
$1820

« A3000 Performance Pack
for $465

• PC AT Pack for $1790

• PC 386 Pack for $2580
Assorted programs are
thrown in to help sweeten
the whole deal and kick off
the new owners with some
Immediate useful applica-
tions. Let's hope they sell
thousands!

Touch tablet

Local software company
Serendipity Software haue
launched a complete Amiga
touch-tablet package com-
bining the Calcomp Wiz and

necessary drivers for use
with a range of software
package.

Once in place, the soft-
ware allows most mouse-
driven programs to use the
touch- tablet as an input de-
vice.

For more information
contact Peter Skarpetis on
02 449 8133 ext. 283.

Japanese on
Viaeodisk

Temple Industries in
W.A. is authoring the
code necessary to set up
courses for learning Japa-
nese on videodisks, con-
trolled by Ami gas. The
curriculum is being devel-
oped mainly at Curtin
University. Three or four
more such disks will be
developed in the future.

Anthony Temple, the
mover and shaker in this
venture, also sees a possi-
ble CDTV spin-off in the
future. If Commodore is
smart, they will jump
into marketing the prod-
uct with such things as
an Asian keyboard sets
and the like.

Graphic Designer

New Horizons Software
have issued a challenge to
Professional Draw - the
structured drawing pro-
gram. Graphic Designer of-
fers srnoothable curves,
multiple drawing layers,
and flexible text handling
and unlimited multicolour
patterns. It contains an
ARexx port with complete
macro language. You can
gel full control over print-
ing, reduction, enlarge-
ment, sideways printing,
and print density, You can
even get drawings of over
64 square feet.

Only 512K required,
and price is US$125. The
product should be availa-
ble at the end of May.

Pro Vector 2.0

Another graphics pack-
age with similar features;
this one features multiple

level "undo", "layers" sys-
tem, and text flowing on
any path. Compatible with
WB2.0. and has the ability
to save files in ProVector
(IFFDR2D), IFF-ILBM, HP-
GL or Postscript formats,
and a dithering routine to
simulate 256 onscreen col-
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Price is US$ 299.95 ■
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Tel: (415)2561195.

Newsflash disk
magazine

A disk magazine with a
difference. Newsflash is
now available. As well as
regular editorials, it has
programs, utilities, crea-
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and other notices. It also
includes a world wide
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Pagestream
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The Sterling Connec-
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business called Templicity,
have created over 100 ad-
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inventory control, order
forms, purchase orders, job
estimates, legal forms, etc.
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Computermate on (02) 457
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Amiga
stargazing

An astronomer called
Mighell from the Nether-
lands developed an Ami-
ga-VAX corroborative
software /display setup
for counting stars. The
Amiga links to the VAX as
a low-cost display of the
serious number-crunching
done by the VAX. Mighell
chose the Amiga over the
competition for its graph-
ics and multi-tasking.
Oddly enough, I found
this report in "PC User"
magazine, a publication
which ignores Amigas as
much as possible!

Xcopy mystery
unravelled

There has been some
confusion about this pro-
gram - there was a PD disk
called XCopy on some PD
catalogues with a letter
which described how a pro-
grammer had been "ripped
off by Cachet Software
(the authors of Xcopy3).

The programmer said
he had written a new ver-
sion and Cachet had re-
fused to pay him, so he
was releasing it into the
PD. In the words of Martyn
Brown of 17-Bit Software
in the UK;

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rector of Cachet Software
(who also happens to be
the author of Xcopy) I can
clear up the situation.

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Cachet Software did not
ask for this work to be car-
ried out - it appears that
the programmer in ques-
tion added the features and
sent it to Cachet, who re-
jected the "new" version. In
which case the program-
mer has no case.

'The latest official ver-
sion of Xcopy is Xcopy3
Professional, including all
sorts of correct, working
features and is the only
one recommended by Ca-
chet, Cachet assume no re-
sponsibility for misuse
when using 2.3 and have
said that use of some of the
added features can actually
harm the disk drive.

"So the disk has been
removed from some PD
lists, and we urge all PD
distributors to do likewise."

Controller for
2.5" and 3.5"
hard drives

Released by ICD, Inc.,
it is called AdIDE, and is
an autobooting IDE (Intel-
ligent Drive Electronics)
hard drive controller. Fits
into any Amiga under
Kickstart 1 .2 or higher.
Also compatible with oth-
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expansion port and lets
you boot from external
Jlopppies when required.
Said to be the smallest
host adapter for the Ami-
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The colourful world of

by George Kimpton

Take a bunch of numbers, plot
them, colour them and view
them from anywhere you like
and you have the principle behind
MathVISION. Trigonometry, boolean
algebra and recursive formulas never
looked so good.

I am sure there are times when,
like me. you have found mathematics
either plain boring or fruslratingiy in-
comprehensible. Then along came
Mandelbrots and Fractals, Still in-
comprehensible, but fascinating pic-
tures. Instead of seeing masses of
boring numbers we see magnificent
swirls of colour patterns which repre-
sent ranges of numbers.

The experts tell us these are ail
part of the Chaos Theory of Mathe-
matics where seemingly random hap-
penings are in fact mathematically
predictable. This branch of mathe-
matics is regularly being used to
create scenery using products such
as VISTA. The resulting IFFs can be
used as backgrounds in paint pro-
grams, or as textures in ray- tracing
or animation packages.

People are even proving that nor-
mal objects such as a flower or leaves
can be described mathematically and
can consequently be drawn by a com-
puter. MathsVISION actually provides
the formula to plot a flower. In other
words I think they are trying to tell
us that everything in nature can be
described mathematically. [Apart
from Commodore Review contributors
■Ed.)

Applications

Some game programs in fact do
use fractals for scenery and even

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create individual trees, plants, rocks,
etc. to provide the right background.
The artists among us now can also
easily use programs like V7STA to
render mountains, rivers, clouds and
all those things necessary for good
backgrounds in art work without the
usual hard work.

The only problem is that we don't
realty understand what we are doing
and how to get exactly what effect we
want. Well, with MathsVISION, we
can get a little closer by introducing
our own math formulae into the pro-
gram and then controlling just how it
will be displayed.

We can either have the simple X,Y
plots we are all used to or colourful
contour or perspective plots. Thus we
are capable of evaluating functions
with one or two variables by display-
ing the results of our formula on
screen in full colour and in 3-D If
necessary.

Requirements

MathsVISION system require-
ments are fairly basic; 512k of RAM
[more is faster), one disk drive, al-
though two are better, and Work-
bench 1.2 or higher. Provision ts
made for hard disk installation and
different versions of the program are
supplied for an accelerator board.

AREXX is also supported and cov-
ered in a special section and tutorial.

In the author's own words:
"MathsVISION is a too] for viewing
mathematics. Its pictures are pictori-
al representations of mathematical
expressions and data. It provides
many different techniques to visual-
ise any mathematical expressions
and data." It also seeks to stimulate
new insights into the behavior of the
phenomenon s being studied.

It allows the use of colour cycle
art and provides the ability to ani-
mate funcUons and to explore Chaot-
ic Functions such as the Mandelbrot
set, Cantor set, Lorenz equation and
bifurcating formulas all in full colour.

Wow. what a mouthful, but it sounds
fascinating doesn't it.?

MathsVISION has a sophisticated
graphics interface which allows you
to choose definitive limits over which
a function is to be evaluated without
entering specific data. It also allows
you to choose the form of display to
give the best visual understanding of
the resulting data. It then allows you
to analyse that data easily with a
zoom facility and cursor readouts on
screen.

The basic X,Y or simple plots are
for single variables. When we use the
contour or perspective plots we are
really moving into the multiple varia-
ble fields. Each contour is displayed
as a different colour. Contour colour
and width is selectable through
something called a "Modulo".

The Function itself is entered as
"Val" in the Edit screen. The Varia-
bles, from FA to Fn, which control
the function are also entered via the
Edit Screen. The other parameters
and plot controls are through pull
down menus.

The results of the Contour and
Perspective Modes are displayed as
colour contour patterns on your
screen with some staggeringly beauti-
ful patterns if the formula and the
functions it uses are right. However
even with the most mundane formula
there can still be some beautiful re-
sults. The results can be saved to
disk or printed out.

Practicality

Yes, you say, but how does this
help me with working out my invest-
ments or that rather complicated
project that's driving me mad at
present? Well, in any of the display
formats you can use the Analyse
Cursor which allows you to move
around the screen or graph and auto-
matically read out the resulting pa-
rameter values that correspond to
the cursor position.

Tutorials take you step by step
through the working of very simple
formulae concerning electrical power
or the calculation of sales tax on an
item for sale. This is handled as a
single variable in the simple formal
and in a two variable format as a
contour display where you can move
your cursor around and find the re-
sultant of varying either price or
sales tax.

There is even a tutorial which
shows you how to determine the opti-
mum investment and way to invest
your hard earned savings to achieve

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a stated goal. Just what we need
while every cent counts these days.

Considerable care is given in this
tutorial to teaching you how to organ-
ise the data of your problem to mini-
mise taxes and optimise capital gain
and then devise a formula that will
give you the information you need. A
scan of the resultant graph in the An-
alyse mode allows you to optimise
your investment.

Problems

Quite complex formulae or func-
tions are possible using the edit
screen but you must learn to use
Maths VISION'S own peculiar format
and rules to enter your calculation or
function and variables or watch out.

One thing that is very frustrating
with this program is that there are
times when you do not know if the
computer is working or not, and if it
is not working, did you do something
wrong. It sometimes just sits there
and smirks at you with nothing ap-

parently happening and you are none
the wiser.

All is pretty straightforward up to
this point but beyond this the manual
tends to fall down. For a practising
mathematician the remaining pages
may be easy to follow but for me it of-
ten left just loo much out. Maybe if I
did not have a deadline to meet in
writing this article I could have even-
tually fumbled my way through in a
month or so.

This program is definitely not for
the casual mathematician unless you
stick to basic calculations, it is for the
professional or someone who likes a
challenge or collects programs of this
type. If you like to produce pretty pic-
tures using mathematics and are pre-
pared to persevere you will probably
win through.

What this program badly needs is
a completely rewritten manual or a
new supplement. I feel sure it has tre-
mendous potential as the preplotted
screens show. One screen actually
shows how you can mathematically

draw a Spleen wort Fern frond and
even supplies the formula to do so.

Other preplotted screens show a
magnificent Mandelbrot and some
other plots with very interesting
shapes and colour patterns. Formulae
and functions are again supplied to
allow you to experiment with them.
There is even a means of producing
mathematical sounds if you should so
wish.

This is where it all comes apart
though - try as I might I could not
bring up a resultant screen plot of the
fern. After clicking on Plot I was faced
with a black screen with the usual
snooze balloon showing that the com-
puter was busy for some time. Finally
the snooze disappeared and the point-
er came back but no fern. I flipped
screens but it was nowhere to be
found.

What the manual does not explain
very well is the faci that you need to
have some specific "Hooks" up and
running to make these things happen
and it doesn't say what happens with

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the wrong ones running.

Hooks are specialist sub programs for specific
data manipulation purposes. This is discovered
through diligent re-reading of the manual but it still
doesn't tell you which ones are needed or the proce-
dure to load them after you have started MathsVI-
SION running. The old hand remembers the ( Ami-
ga-N or M ) method but a new chum might not.

Other things can also cause a lack of display.
Determination to make the program work and a
number of blank screens finally led me to experi-
ment with scaling and magnification factors - and
Bingo!, a display at long last on some hitherto un-
seen plots.

There was also a mysterious "2" which appeared
when 1 tried to adjust the angle of view in perspec-
tive mode with some formulae. This was apparently
telling me to zoom in if I wanted to see anything at
all but not a word in the manual.

The manual also tells you to browse through the
examples on the Pictures disk. Something was
missing again - for clicking on icons from Work-
bench did not produce any results when I tried even
with the program running.

However it was possible to view some of these
preplotted pics when running the program, through
the load requestor. These were enough to whet the
appetite to press on and do my own thing with my
own formula. Unfortunately the results were some-
what disappointing. Perhaps with more time I will
have better luck.

Conclusions

I believe this program has much to offer if one
could only get into it but it needs a better manual,
one the ordinary person can follow, otherwise, in its
present format, it will appeal only to the mathemati-
cians or those who like a challenge. It will of course
still help and satisfy those who are satisfied with
fairly basic maths analysis and manipulation.

For those who are prepared to persevere I sus-
pect the rewards will be great with some fascinat-
ingly beautiful screens, such as the Julia Mandle-
brot demo, once one leams to master the dreaded
"Hooks". These hooks seem to have some mysteri-
ous protocol whereby loading the wrong one cancels
others out.

Unfortunately, it is by no means clear from the
manual which does what and which are absolutely
necessary for specific projects. In fact there is prac-
tically nothing said about the demos except for
some cryptic remarks on the Edit Screen when the
appropriate formula is loaded.

The Amiga may be user friendly but this pro-
gram, or maybe it's just the manual, is not. Well,
good luck with MathsVISION if you should decide to
take a chance with it and if you succeed drop us a
line and let us know what you found. □

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Hyperbook is all this and more.
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make it all possible.

Imagine a Hyperbook World Adas.
Looking at a map of the world you
click on a country of interest. Next up
you're viewing the states of that
country, you choose one and click.
This lime you're presented with a pic-
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graphic showing the population
growth over the past ten years. You
click on the graphic and you get to
listen to a speech by the prime minis-
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of government.

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We're talking phone books, appoint-
ment managers, educational soft-
ware, games ... you name it. Hyper-
book is not everything CanDo is, but
what Hyperbook can do, it does with
style, ease and elegance.

Installation

Inside your hy-
perbox there's two
disks contained in
the usual "if you
break this seal and
live packet we will
have to kill you",
with all the rele-
vant license details
that go along with
that.

There's also a
handy guide to ap-
plications area.
This was the first
book I read. It real-
ly threw some light

onto the potential of this package.
The 148 perfect-bound user manual
has a cluttered look, but is neverthe-
less filled with useful examples and
plenty of explanations.

Installing the product is as simple
as every Amiga program should be -
drag the icon to the drawer you wish
to contain the application. It will help
immensely if you also have a copy of
AREXX on your system - AREXX ar-
rives standard with Workbench 2.0
or you can buy it as a commercial
product.

For those unsure. AREXX pro-
vides the interface required to allow
programs with an AREXX port to
communicate with each other.
AREXX has a programming language
of its own, and each application run-
ning with AREXX adds its own com-
mands. In essence this means you
could tell Digiuiew GOLD to grab a
picture from a spreadsheet program.
These sorts of capabilities allow
amazing hybrid applications to be de-
veloped. The limits of one program
can be filled in with the power of an-
other.

With this in mind, and the fact
Hyperbook boasts a very large
AREXX command set, and you begin
to see the power of this program
stretches well beyond the interface
we're about to take a look at.

Inside the Hype

When you first launch ffyperbook
the screen opens with a large blank
expanse waiting to be hyped up with
books. To the right is a bunch of
tools Tor constructing the hype and
there is an array of pull down menus.
The interface looks Workbench 2'ish
and has a slick, smart feel. Every-
thing happens quickly and smoothly.

Default Button

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□ SiiDU picture Q Show/hide

Q Display text ODDS connsnd

Q flRexx connand □ RRexx nacro

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HML Functions

The sections listed at right

split the HML Mew

functions into groups (by

color) and subgroups (by

line). To go to the first

page of any section, click

on its name. To see the

functions documented in a

given section, click un the

'List Section Contents'

rBool
I Navigation
I Ha in control panel
iGeneral operations
I Page creation
lHaster pages
iPage files
IPage editing
I Object creation
I Object editing
I Ret ions

iKote and button text
1 1 tens and Lists
(Searches
I User input
I Text edit ins
iPrinting
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Arexx manua

It's best to start by having a look
at one of the example books included
on the second disk. If you have
AJREXX. {Hyperbook will run AREXX
for you if it's there), you can also try
out the applications. These books are
more complex and include functions
which modify the book, work with
files and data.

A quick guide around the menus
must begin with the standard Project
menu; from here you can LOAD and
SAVE a book or defaults, print pages,
iconify or shrink the window down to
a tag on Workbench or empty the BIN
- which is kind of like clipboard, but
different. The programs file requestor
is F.A.B. (Farrell Approved Build). All
available devices are listed, and the
option to sort the list is included. It is
fast and easy to use.

On the page menu you can create,
delete, edit, load, save and merge pag-
es - or screens in real terms. Many
pages, or just a few depending on the
requirements, make up a book. In
this case, because you jump around

II | | IT! HE! the pages, it's a
hyper book!

TLiere's a host of
options on the
Command menu
for dealing with
text, objects and
pages. You can
read and edit text,
display a picture or
delete a file. For
fast development of
hyped up books
you can also run
your favourite

word processor or
paint program di-
rectly from Hyper-
book. From the
Preferences menu,
dozens of default
program settings can be altered.

The last menu handles the AREXX
interface. You can create, save, load
and edit macros or issue a single
command. AREXX macros can be at-
tatched to parts of a Hyperbook appli-

cation.

Don't forget to clone that
page! But first, wait the
dog!

ilnproue the lot of inmanity
I in sone important wav.

F I v to Bernuda (renertber to
flap faster this tine).

Build a house underneath a
big, spreading tree. Liue in
it.

Lunch with fifi, Baib
Franco ise and Inge

*

Talk to J B about acquiring
that Brazi I ian whoopee
cushion conglonerate.

Sell that extra company of
ours to sone foreigner,

Invest heaui ly in
plunneting stock.

AREXX provides the

interface required to

allow programs with

an AREXX port to

communicate with

each other

Tools and Gadgets

Although defaulting to the stan-
dard right hand screen position, Hy-
perbook's tool bar may be positioned
wherever you wish just by grabbing
the top bar and moving it around.
Tool functions in-
clude; Read the Hy-
perbook; Edit; Bin;
Group; First/Last/
Next/Previous
page; Contents; Re-
turn to page;
Create Note; Draw-
ing or List; Create
Button: Picture or
Page.

Creating a page
is simple. Choose
create page and
then fill it with all
the information you
want on it - pic-

tures, text and buttons. Any standard
IFF file can be imported. Hyperbook
keeps an original copy in memory,
whilst allowing a portion or the entire
original to be scaled and placed on
the page. Later on you can easily
crop, move and size the image. Text
can be placed in a similar fashion,
with excellent control over fonts, for-
matting, point sizes and styles. Hyper-
book receives top marks in this area.

All types of boxes containing any
kind of element may be turned into a
hot point. When you click on one of
these defined boxes, Hyperbook can
be instructed what to do. Using the
standard requestors you can trigger
one event. With help from AREXX you
can trigger several. Normally you will
want to jump to another page, howev-
er other possible actions include:
Show Picture; Display Text; Go to
page; Show/ Hide; DOS Command or
AREXX Command.

With all these options up your
hyper sleeve the world of hyper media
opens up along with the possibility of
including a host of effects such as
music and sound not directly sup-
ported within Hyperbook.

A small selection of drawing tools
enable simple diagrams and graphics
to be created within Hyperbook. The
graphic elements are handled in the
same fashion as a structured drawing
program, meaning you can easily
modify the image later.

Conclusions

Hyperbook is brilliantly designed.
It is simple to use, works quickly and
intuitively. I would recommend it for
developers of graphic intensive educa-
tion products, teachers, and profes-
sionals for presentation work. With
the right graphics, text and sound,
Hyperbook has incredible potential.
Well done Gold Disk.

Let's see some local applications
Tor this package real soon now. Much
of the potential or Hyperbook lies in
the uses to which it is put. □

Diary application

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Cameron
Handy
Scanner

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cable which attaches to either interface
with a DB9 plug.

The scanner is palm sized with a
green plastic window mounted in the
head which lets the user see through to
the material being scanned. The window
also defines the maximum scan width of
105 mm. On the left is a three position
switch which selects a resolution of ci-
ther 200, 300 or 400 dots per inch. On
top of the unit is a large oblong button
which turns scanning on. A red LED
mounted inside the scan head lights to

by Stuart Kennedy

Just when you thought it
was safe to close up your
wallet there Is a new must-
have peripheral in town - the
scanner. Tills image and text
sucking widget is fast becoming
the darling tool of desktop pub-
lishers, CAD jockeys and data-
base mainlainers.

Scanning is also great fun, es
pecially for playing video voodoo with
friends, enemies or on yourself. Feel-
ing vindictive? Just scan in a picture
of that ex girl/boyfriend or pesky rela-
tive and video hack their anatomy into
amusing shapes.

In the US, the market for scanners
more than doubled last year and the giant
PC compatible market has become very
well served with devices ranging from sim-
ple, low resolution, black and white scan-
ners costing several hundred dollars up to
USS15.000 systems able to scan and deci-
pher the Dead Sea Scrolls.

While scanners are being thrown at
IBM compatible users, scanner offerings
have been thin on the ground in Amiga
land. The reason is that while a few scan-
ners transmit data over the universal seri-
al or parallel ports, most use either a SCSI
interface or the GPIB/IEEE-488 bus. For a
manufacturer wanting to sell an Amiga
product compatible with the large Amiga
500 market this means having to do a soft-
ware port and designing a special Inter-
face.

Fortunately Germans like the Amiga
and have bought it in large enough num-
bers to entice German scanner manufac-
turer Cameron GmbH into producing a
range of machines which will work with
the 500 and the 2000+ series. Models
range from a simple 200 DPI black and
white model to a colour unit able to scan
In 4,096 colours.

I tested the Cameron Type 10 hand
held seamier which has switchable 200/
300/400 DPI resolution, a large 105 mm
scan width (most hand held scanners
have a 64 mm scan head) and is capable of
producing 16 grey tones as well as black
and white.

The unit comes with two interface
cards: one for a 2000+ Amiga which fits
into a vacant 2000 slot and an Amiga 500
interface which hooks on to the expansion
connector on the lefthand side of the com-
puter. The scanner has a long 1.7 metre

AGAR 16

tell the user
that scanning
is in progress.
There is a con-
trast wheel on N
the right and a
four position

switch which selects be-
tween black/ white or
three levels of grey scale
dithering.

So how docs it work?
The quickest way to move "
an Image from the desktop
onto the screen Is to run the
supplied demo program. Find a
picture, hit the big grey button, and
drag the scan head over It. Bingo. A
black and white rendered image ap
pears and a whole new world of plagiar-
ism opens up.

The first surprise for a scanning nov
ice is that the screen image is much larg-
er than the scanned picture. Increasing
the DPI makes the image even larger. It's
all a matter of screen resolution and dots
per inch. Resolution of a scanner is deter-
mined by the number of dots the device
can sample per linear inch of document.
Image symmetry and clarity is best with
the screen in 640 x 400 Interlace mode.

Handy Painter

Cameron supplies a scanning cum pic-
ture editing program called Handy Painter.
The first time 1 ran Handy Painter off the
master disk the menus came up in Ger-
man - the program can be installed in a
number of languages including English.

The paint program has a full suite of
editing tools for zooming, cutting, pasting
and filling parts of a scanned image as
well as an array of drawing tools like lines,
boxes and circles. The program uses all
available ram (chip and fast) for its picture
buffers so very large images can be manip-
ulated. The downside is speed. When run-
ning a four bitplanc, 640 * 400 Interlace
screen the software grinds along very
slowly.

A one megabyte machine is marginal
for running high resolution screens and
scans. 1 was booted out of the program
many times with out of memory errors -
fortunately the program can save work In
progress if the memory mark is over-
stepped. Beside running out of RAM, I
also found the program to be rickety in
the reliability stakes, it would often hang
or guru inexplicably. Once a scan was on
the screen the best part of using Handy
Painter was leaving it lor something easier
to use and more robust like Dpaint 111.

Black and white mode on the type 10
was excellent for snaffling up simple
line drawings and can be used to
build an impressive clip art li-
brary. But the most stunning
results came by using the
dithering and grey scale ren-
dering ability of the scanner
and the paint program.

Photographs are contin-
uous tone images meaning
they are made up of an In-
finite number of grey
shades between black
and white. The Cameron
Type 10 scanner can dif-
ferentiate 16 levels of
grey through dithering
(changing dot densities to
simulate shades of grey).
The software is capable of
rendering the dithering
into "real" grey scales by
using a 4 bitplane, 16
colour screen. [This is not
good enough Jor profes-
sional use which requires
256 grey scales - Ed.)
Processing a scanned im-
age into greys takes time and
reduces resolution (and picture
size) by a factor of four. It also uses
a lot of memory. On a one meg ma-
chine the maximum sized image able to be
scanned and processed into greys is
around 55 mm by 55 mm. The software
allows the user to specify the limits of a
scan and will automatically set the maxi-
mum allowable dimensions for available
memory.

All this means that the Cameron Type
10 can scan a black and white or colour

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rendering of it on the screen. The best a
straight black and white scanner can do is
display a crude, "dotty" image of a continu-
ous tone picture.

Character Reading

The Cameron scanner can snaffle up
and decipher text as well as graphics. Op-
tical Character Recognition (OCR) is the
ability to turn a piece of scanned text into
an ASCII text file. Right now the best OCR
packages have about 95% accuracy which
might sound flash but means there will be
50 bodgy characters in a thousand word
text scan - that could add up to 50 mis-
spellings. Scanned text needs a thorough
washing through a good spelling checker.

There are two types of OCR software in
use today. The first and most intelligent
form is feature extraction where the soft-
ware checks the attributes of the scanned
characters against a list of attributes each
character is known to have. A "p" would be
listed as a vertical line with a closed semi
circle in the upper right hand sector. This
method allows flexibility in dealing with
different fonts and font styles on the fly.
OCR software using feature extraction are
often called "omnifont" packages.

The second character recognition
method is matrix matching or font recogni-
tion where the software is taught the char-
acters for specific fonts along with the cor-
responding ASCII values. After scanning in

a block of text the OCR software checks As hardware, I found the Handy Scan-
each character with its list of stored char- ner an excellent piece of kit with its wide
acters. When It finds a match the ASCII scan head, swltehable resolution, grey
character is pumped into an output text scale ability and robust design. The sup-

file.

The Cameron scanner comes with a
matrix matching package ealled Handy
Reader and has a ready installed font li-
brary which includes Helvetica. TimesRo-
man, Courier, LetterGothic, Pica, Prestige,
Digits [numeric font). Typeface (for daisy-
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Times and Helvetica. New fonts can be
"taught" in to the system by scanning in
text and then building a new database by
telling the software which ASCII character
equates to which bit image.

Documentation

Documentation for the Handy Scanner
comes in the form of two ring bound man-
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sure. The heavy, twisted grammar isn't
even funny like many Japanese/English
translations. Machine language program-
mers will probably love it.

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can you introduce some

healthy software into

their daily diet of binary

bytes? Anne Glover

expounds on the

methods she

recommends in such

dire circumstances

As the computer was purchased
to enhance the educational op-
portunities of the children, you
probably had some grand visions that
do not appear to be materialising.
Perhaps you Imagined Kate at the
keyboard producing assignments the
teacher could actually read, Julia in-
troducing you to the world of telecom-
puting and Peter setting up databases
of his favourite reptiles.

The reality Instead is that comput-
er activities are limited to devious and
devilish acts of death and destruc-
tion. Or perhaps Peter has taken on
the persona of "Larry", Kate has
turned into Carmen Sandi-WHO-go
and Julia needs to save a complete
colony of lemmings before breakfast 1

As a result you are a bit concerned
about the direction computer activi-
ties have taken in your household. A
teacher may suggest you take a look
at the following areas if you are wor-
ried.

• Is the child spending an "Inap-

propriate" amount of time with the
computer?

• Are family relationships, school-
work, friendships, behaviour, social
activities, sporting activities or per-
sonality suffering because of this ac-
tivity?

Children and of course adults
need a balanced diet, both in their
consumption of food and of intellec-
tual stimuli. This doesn't mean they
need to spend exactly equal amounts
of time reading as they do socialising
or writing essays. They do however
need variety, a range of activities to
be involved in, just as they do with
food. Most children will naturally se-
lect a range of inputs and provide for
themselves a healthy lifestyle, even if
they do need an almighty push with
the homework.

Computer game
junkies

An occasional child will spend loo
much of their time, and become too
involved in the world of computer
games. Just as another child will
spend too much time glued to the TV
or another will try to live on nothing
but junk food. All of these children
(or adults) need some careful redirec-
tion.

If your children are not in this
category you may still be concerned
that they are "wasting" a lot of time
playing games. Throughout history
many parents have had the same
concern, maybe not with computer
games but with all the other games
kids enjoy. Remember that games are
often the way children learn, about
their body, their mind and the world
around them.

My toddler's latest game is to turn
things "ot" and "on", taps and sprink-
lers, power points and lights and
even the fuse box has had a turn. He
might be learnmg a lot but I hope the

lesson will be completed before winter
time, 1 am already sick of being
drenched. My four year old is into
collecting rocks, large and small, dir-
ty or clean, sometimes with its own
wildlife attached. This is also not a lot
of fun for Mum, especially when you
stub your toe on them when creeping
into their room at night or the toddler
takes a liking to a larger one (twice
the size of a brick) and he drops it on
your other toe. I must grit my teeth
and remember that this is how chil-
dren learn, and perhaps how mothers
do too.

If games are an effective way for
children to learn, what are they
learning from computer games?

To begin with you wLU need to ex-
amine the type of games your child is
into but generally they can be a great
introduction to computing. The kids
may already be more computer liter-
ate than you are. They will be able
(when they are ready) to move into
more serious computing without the
mental blocks that may inhibit the
oldies.

Benefits

While playing the "dreaded" games
the child may have developed a num-
ber of skills. These skills will vary
with the age of the child and the type
of games but could include: en-
hanced logical patterns of thought,
understanding of sequences, develop-
ment of memory, use of symbols, re-
sponding to actions, development of
imagination and fantasy, enhanced
language skills, understanding of
maps, scales and directions, reading,
spelling, counting, improved reflexes,
keyboard and mouse familiarity, lis-
tening, concentration and compre-
hension skills.

Some of these skills may not
translate themselves from the world
of computer games, others however
will help them at work and at play.

Children with special problems
such as an attention deficit disorder
or dyslexia could gain enormously
from a carefully selected game that
meets their specific needs. Here a
true "game" could be a valuable edu-
cational tool.

What to do

If your Amiga is still relatively
new, the obsession with games could
be an early fad as they become used
to the machine. Games are very at-
tractive to big and little kids and it is
understandable that they attract a lot

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an imbalance In the early months.

I can remember when our Amiga
was new, a friend and collegue reas-
sured me that my "big kid's" obses-
sion with computer games was just a
fad. Her boys still play games from
time to time but now use their com-
puter for a wider range of uses. To
this date I cannot say my 36 year old
"kid" has such a balanced approach
to computer usage.

Just as most parents monitor the
types of TV programs, the videos that
their children watch as well as the
friends their children associate with,
so they will monitor the types of soft-
ware their children have access to.

If your children are spending a lot
of time with the computer, then the
selection of software is most impor-
tant. With young children you proba-
bly have a high degree of control, as
you will be selecting all of their soft-
ware for purchase. As the kids get
older you will need to prevent any pi-
rated software from entering your
home, not such an easy task. From a
moral point of view as well as an edu-
cational point of view it is worthwhile
Insisting on this basic ground rule.

Much of the software currently
available for the Amiga does not fit
neatly into the education or the enter-
tainment categories, programs can
easily straddle both areas. After all
educauon can indeed be fun! Some of
these programs are really worth pur-
chasing and may overcome your di-
lemma of too high a concentration on
games. If the educational programs
are fun, the kids are more likely to
spend a lot of time on them.

Examples of these "edu-tainment"
programs include the Carmen Sandie-
go series, Sim City and Ports of Call If
the kids are spending a lot of time
with the computer, you may feel more
comfortable if the games have an edu-
cational emphasis.

Another approach is to play the
games with your children. You never
know, you could learn a lot, both
about computers and about your
child, and have some fun along the
way. Family relationships could im-
prove in other areas as a result. The
whole family could end up spending
an "appropriate" amount of lime play-
ing games. Q

by Anne Glover

How would your child like to get
into a toy factory and start designing
their own toys? Just imagine some of
the incredible ideas in your child's
head leaping to life in this factory.
Perhaps a mini spaceship to take
them oul of this world (and maybe
back again) or a little teddy that
cleans up their room as it talks and
plays around, or perhaps a magic
wand to make their little sister or
brother disappear. Wild imaginations
will lead to some fanciful toys'

First Shapes, from First Byte,
USA, allows your child to enter the
secret domain of the toy factory. Al-
though it will not extend as far as
your child's seemingly limitless imagi-
nation, it will provide a lot of fun and
serve an educational purpose at the
same time.

The Toy Factory allows the child to
play around with five basic shapes
(circle, square, triangle, rectangle and
oval) as they learn to become familiar
with them. The child uses the shapes
to make up their choice of 10 differ-
ent toys in a multitude of ways. For
example a clown's head could be any
of the five shapes, as can his body
and legs, each making him different
from the last clown and the next
clown.

After custom
designing their
toy the pro-
gram runs
through the
shapes the

child has used
Their
toy may
then be
stored
in thelr
compu
ter
"Toy
Box" if
they
wish. It
also be print-
ed before the
budding design
er moves onto

next project. This is
a fun way to intro-
duce these shapes
to a young child.

Another activity
on the First Shapes
program is simply
called "Shapes",
this is an even sim-
pler introduction to
the five shapes. This game shows
and names a shape, then allows the
child to ask for it to be made larger
or smaller. So the concept of size is
also being introduced.

After the child is fairly familiar
with these live shapes they are ready
to enjoy the Toy Fair". Here they are
required to help teddy knock the bol-
Ues down (or ring the be U etc.) by se-
lecting the right shapes. The pro-
gram may ask the child to select "the
triangle", or "the smallest shape" to
help teddy.

To reinforce their knowledge of
the five shapes a game of concentra-
tion is included. Three levels of diffi-
culty with a choice of playing by
themselves, with a friend or with ted-
dy give this matching game plenty of
scope.

Conclusion

This program Introduces five ba-
sic shapes to young children. The
concept of size is also addressed. As
far as It goes It is a great program. 1
don't see it spanning the age group
suggest on the package (ie 3-8 years)
but rather the 3-5 year age group.
An older child having some difficulty
with these concepts would also ben-
efit while having some fun at the
same time.

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by Anne Glover

Here is another excellent program from First Byte,
Like many First Byte products it is a quality talking pro-
gram and can be custom designed [to a degree) to suit
your child. First Letters and Words is ideal for the 4-7
year olds.

This program attempts to help children:

• Identify the upper and lower case letters of the al-
phabet.

• Locate the alphabet keys on the computer keyboard.

• Associate letters with words that use those letters in
the initial position.

• Achieve sight recognition of a 76 plus word vocabu-
lary.

• See how each letter would be drawn with pencil and
paper,

• Take a written and spoken description and associate
it with a familiar animal or object...

If all of that sounds a bit drab and boring it is only the
objectives of the program. The way these objectives are
achieved is through having lots of fun as you will see be-
low.

The Magic Letter Machine carefully and slowly draws
any letter the child selects from the keyboard. After
"thinking" for a few seconds, the Magic Machine then pro-
duces a picture of something that begins with the chosen
letter. So if the child selects "k" on the keyboard, the ma-
chine slowly and correctly draws a "k" then produces a
picture of a kangaroo or a kite or a king. Different pic-
tures appear if the same letter is selected a number of
times. While this is happening the computer is talking to
the child, saying "the letter k" and "k is for kangaroo" etc.

With the help of this program the child will become fa-
miliar with the letters of the alphabet, words that begin
with these letters, as well as how to pronounce and write
the letters - a truly "Magic Machine".

Identifying upper and low-
er case letters is a problem
for some children. The prob-
lem may even be accentuated
in these "computer toddlers"
who are so familiar with the
upper case keyboard. The
"Card Circus" game requires
the child to match upper and
lower case letters to start the
circus rolling. If an incorrect
selection is made, that letter
disappears, giving the child a
better chance next time. This
talking program allows the
child to hear the letters pro-
nounced and then see the
clown juggle, or the teddy walk on a tightrope, etc.

For the more competent a guessing game is also in-
cluded ("Who Am I"). The computer shows and reads a
short paragraph that gives a clue to the animal or object
jn question. At the easy level die answer is also produced,
the child only needs to copy it in using the keyboard. At
the medium level three words are presented to be selected
from (a sort of kiddies' multiple choice). At the hard level

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only the number of letters are indicated. When the child
types in a word all the correct letters are accepted, in
whatever order. Any incorrect letters are ignored. Once
the word is complete, it is spoken, spelled and a picture
of the mystery object appears.

This program has a lew
American pronunciations
and spellings, the colours
are a bit drab and it proba-
bly doesn't adequately span
the 3-8 year age group indi-
cated. Apart from those
shortcomings, which I think
are minor, it is an excellent
program. As an added bo-
nus Dinosaur Surprise is in-
cluded, a screen-based col-
ouring book to add a bit of
variety.

Conclusion

A fun introduction to letters and words, one well worth
buying for the 4-7 year olds.

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Mixed

Mother

by Anne Glover

And now for something completely
different. Remember the Sierra organ-
isation and Roberta Williams? She de-
signed the Kings Quest series
amongst others. Roberta has now put
her hand to a children's adventure
with Mixed-up Mother Goose and it is
a beauty!

After matching up Little Bo Peep
with her sheep, for example, the com-
pleted nursery rhyme is played by a
grateful litde character. When the
whole game has been completed the
rhymes will be jumbled again, ran-
domly, so each game represents a
new challenge.

Children do not need to be able to
read to take part in this adventure.

their preferred method of movement,
or perhaps you could encourage them
to change the method of movement
from time to time.

Fortunately each game can be
saved for an additional session on an-
other day, so you won't have the five
year olds up burning the midnight
oil. Up to 12 different games can be
saved which may be useful for teach-

Your child will be able to wander
through nursery-rhyme land and
meet many of their favourite charac-
ters. The player has a very important
role in this adventure. As you will see,
the nursery rhymes have been jum-
bled up leaving many distraught litde
people. Little Bo Peep for example has
lost her sheep but has in her posses-
sion somebody's tuffet. Mary Mary
(quite contrary) may have a pie but
would much prefer a watering can for
her silver bells and cockleshells.

The child's role Is to locate the cor-
rect objects or animals for their nur-
sery rhyme friends. Initially this may
appear to be a fairly simple task, but
as the land is quite large (44 screens)
with 18 different rhymes to unjumble.
your child will be involved for quite
some time. To help them become im-
mersed more fully into the role, sever-
al images are presented for the child
to select their own representation.

the nursery rhyme characters talk to
the child In words and in pictures.
Humpty Dumpty tells the player he
needs a ladder, then a picture of the
required object appears making it
easier for the child to identify it and
locate it later. Only one object can be
carried at a time so the child needs
to trade objects as they move around
this wonderful fantasy land.

Mixed Up Mother Goose is de-
signed for children of four years and
older. Many three year olds who are
Into nursery rhymes will enjoy this
program with your assistance. Once
a young child becomes familiar with
Mixed Up Mother Goose they will
probably take over, as only a few
keys are needed to play the game.
Characters can however be moved
around using the mouse or the joy-
stick instead of the keyboard if they
wish. No doubt your child will find

ers as well. This program will be well
loved by all those little kids and big
kids that enjoy nursery rhymes. It
has bought our old favourites into the
1990s with a bang. Not stricdy an ed-
ucational program but one that amp-
ly spans the education / entertain-
ment spheres.

Certainly worth a look for some-
thing a little bit different.

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whole disks

In this month's column we'll be
looking at data compression for file
transfers and Telecom's Discovery.
Before we kick off, I would like to say
a big thanks to all those people who
wrote to me or called my BBS with
positive comments about this column.
The editor has decided to keep it
going!

File compaction

Regular modem users are often
found compressing and decompress-
ing files. But what is the point of do-
ing this? Well, it saves money and
time.

First of all, several files can be
sent in one hit by joining them to-
gether as one big file. As the files are
joined, the compression program
packs the information using special
algorithms to remove repeated se-
quences of data and replace them
with codes which can be expanded
back to the original data later on. The
resulting file is much smaller, mean-
ing it will take less time to transfer
the file.

Some people refer to this process
as archiving. Whilst this is partially
correct, the term archiving refers
purely to the fact that compacted files
are often stored away as an archive of
no longer required files. The correct
term is compression.

How do we compress files? There

This is done in several ways. To
archive a disk you need a program
that can create the directories when
unarchiving. In the beginning Warp
(,WRP) was used. Warp was slowly re-
placed with LhWarp (.LHW). Then
people just used LhArc (.LZH) which
is mainly used for programs (some
LhArc unarchivers do not create di-
rectories, so be careful}. The latest
utility to handle this job is DiskMash-
er f.DMSj.

I used DiskMasher and LhWarp on
the same disk and outputted the file
onto a hard drive.

DiskMasher (DMSj was quite diffi-
cult to work out, but was still under-
standable when you knew how. DMS
also allows encrypting, meaning that
to uncrunch, a password has to be
entered. Several compression meth-
ods are available (I used the default
compression rate). It also allows a
text file to be enclosed. While crunch-
ing, DMS shows you the size un-
crunched and the size it is crunching
it to. At the end or the crunching ses-
sion it tells you the size of the output
file, number of tracks H compressed,
time taken and the rate (ie tracks per
minute). DMS also took advantage of
colours to make it more understand-
able.

LhWarp usage was more like the
usual compressors and made it very
clear how to use it and like DMS also
allowed a text file to be enclosed.
LhWarp while crunching uses the
disk bit map to skip empty parts of
the disk. LhWarp was VERY slow
compared to DiskMasher as shown
below. At the end of crunching it tells
you the input and output sizes. (see
table below).

Although LhWarp was able to
achieve a smaller output size, I think
that a different mode of compression
on DMS could have produced a better
result, but taken a bit longer.

Overall, DMS was better. Disk-
Masher can be found on the majority
of BBS's and if not ask someone on a
multiline BBS or ask your SysOp to
get it for you by file requests. As a
last resort you could even try my BBS
or by mail and I will get it to you as
soon as possible.

Discovery!

New services are being added all
the time to Telecom's Discovery. The
available services now include:

AAP News Report

National & International Databases

Online Banking

FlightComm Information

OTC

IntelNet Electronic White and Yellow

Pages

Mediatel Electronic Messaging

Aust. Bureau of Statistics

Fax Transmission

Dow Jones News Retrieval Service

Metex Weather reports

Official Airlines Guide

Money Watch

Shopping

Racing news and Betting

Games

How useful are all these wonderful
services?

The Electronic White and Yellow
pages allows you access to 55 tele-
phone directories and over seven mil-
lion names. The Online Banking ser-
vice is available 24 hours a day with
the Commonwealth Bank, you can
obtain Mastercard / Bankcard / Key-
card account information and details
of the last 150 transactions can be
viewed. Australian Bureau of Statis-
tics offers 148 different topic head-
ings and information 24 hours a day
plus other Government databases.

Charges vary from 5 cents per
page to 20 cents a minute depending
on the time you call, plus a registra-
tion fee of $60.00 (which includes
software for IBM's and compatibles)
plus an additional $15.00 monthly

Continued on p32

DiskMasher
LhWarp

Version Author Output Size Crunch Time

1.02 SDS Software 671 280 bytes 10.29mins

2.01 J. Forbes 641 224 bytes 1 9.23 mins

Uncrunch Time

1 :05 mins
6:29 mins

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HUNT FOR RED OCTOBER

Submarine strategic warfare

49.95

INDIANAPOLIS 500

3D Cat tacing Game Of The Yeai 90'

49.95

GENGHIS KHAN

Ancient orent strategy

99.95

Bandit King Ol Ancienl China

Deep and involved strategy

69.95

BATTLE CHESS

Famous animated chess game

58.95

BLITZKRIEG

Battle olerdennes

59.95

CHESSMASTER2000

Best qualify 3d chess ever

49.95

HARPOON

Submarine simulation wamme

59.95

HARPOON BATTLES ET 2

North Al&anlic convoy

49.95

HOYLES GAMES 2

More great card games

63.95

IMPERIUM

Very heavy sc-fr galactic power

49.95

M1 TANK PLATOON

Quality 3D tank simulation

59.95

OVER RUN

Military war game

49.95

OPERATION HARRIER

Aircraft war strategy

59.95

POWER MONGER

Awesome 3D global control game

59.95

SECOND FRONT

War game

59.95

SIMJLCRA

3D sc-fr strategy game

49.95

STOHM ACROSS EUROPE

War gaming strategy

49.95

SUPREMACY

SC-FI EPIC Role Playing

69.95

TEAM SUZUKI

3D motorcycle racing action

59.95

TEAM YANKEE

Excellent 3d tank simulation

84.95

TRUMP CASTLE

Gambling compilation

49.95

ULTIMAS

Heavy d&d strategy

79.95

UMS2

Foikjw.up to strategy great

39.55

WOLFPACK

Submarine simulation

79.95

WHfTE DEATH

Strategy On the russian front

59.95

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AMIGA CRICKET

Excellent game needs 1 meg

49.95

PRO TENNIS

Besl tennis game seen

49.95

TV SPORTS FOOTBALL

Enjoy gridiron V get this

69.95

TV SPORTS BASKETBALL

Best spons hil game

69.95

KICK OFF 2

SSI Hie best soccer game

59.95

HARDBALL 2

Baseball skills are tested here!

59.95

INTERNATIONAL SOCCER

Excellent 3D soccer classic forever

5995

Jack Nicolas Course Design

Fantastic 3D goll and course maker

79.95

TOURNAMENT GOLF

Arcade style golf game

59.95

WINNERS FfALY 1990

Soccer fans go lor it'

49.95

World Championship Soccer

New soccer game

69,95

WORLDCUP 90 SOCCER

More soccer fun

49.95

ULTIMATE GOLF

Golfing great

59.95

BUSINESS & HOME

ADVANTAGE

Powerful high, speed spreadsheel

299.00

DAY BY DAY

Home planner package

59.95

DGCALC

Quality spreadsheet

99.95

EASY LEDGERS

Accounts payable S receivable

399.00

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On-Line mutli-fasking excellenl

69.95

EXCELLENCE 2.0

Professional wordprocessur

299.00

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Complete Dbase/Sp.sbrWPi^raphics

399.00

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Word processing package * dictionar

99.95

MAILSHOT PLUS

Marling label processing package

S9.95

MAXIPLAN PLUS

Top spreadsheet

199.00

PAGE STREAM 2.1

Quality desktop publishing

399.00

PAGE STREAM FONTS

AddiSona! lonts

59.95

PROFESSIONAL PAGE 1.3

Quality dtp package

299.00

PROWRITE3.0

Wordpro with colour & graphics

219.00

SCRIBBLE PLATINUM

High speed quality word processor

129.95

SUPERBASE PERSONEL 2

Excellent Dbase package

139.95

SUPERBASE PROFESSIONAL Fully programable database

299.00

SYSTEMS

Excellent business pack, call.

129.95

SYSTEM 3 E

New executive version of above

159.95

TRANSWRITE

j-jiiiv word processing system.

99.96

WORDPERFECT

The ultimate word pressor

499.00

WORKS PLATINUM

Improved Vift SpSlv Doe

228.95

DESKTOP BUDGET

Home finance controller

99.95

HOME ACCOUNTS

Balance vi&a. Dtard and Ine gas bill

89.35

PACESETTER II

Beginners dip psc-fcage

179.95

EDUCATIONAL

BEGINING GERMAN

Sprechen sie tfeulch

99.95

DUCK TALES

Great fun for Ihe kids

59.95

ULC'MAL DUNGEON

Educational junior high 5lh

69.S5

DISCOVERY MATHS

Educational fun

39.95

DISCOVERY SPELLING

Educational fun

3S.95

DINOSAUR DISCOVERY KIT

Learning preneloric world

54.95

FUNSCHOOL8-up

Educational coltection

49,95

FUNSCHOOL2-5 (3)

Educational coltection

49.95

FUNSCHOOL6-7 (3)

Educational col'ection

49.S5

KID TALK

Quality sentence learning

49.95

INTELL1TYPE

Learn to touch type on computer

49.95

LOGO AMIGA

Educational programming skills

139.95

MATH BLASTER PLUS

Great learnin-g run 'cral

69.95

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Quality maths learning & to 1 Qyr

49.95

Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing #1 Typng tutor a! ages

69,95

MICRO FRENCH IS. 2

Learn French

54.95

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Education Series

54,95

READ 5 RHYME

Educational 5 to 1 yr olds

69.95

READ A RAMA

Reading program

69.95

SIM CITY

Design and maintain model city

89.95

SPELLER BEE

Learning words

49.95

SPEED READ

Duality training package

99.95

WHERE IN EUROPE CARMEN Geography advenlute

84.95

WHERE IN USA CARMEN

Geography educational game

64.95

WHERE IN WORLD CARMEN

Goography educational game

84.95

WHERE IN TIME CARMEN

Latest release in Hie senes

84.95

WORLD ATLAS

Unique compulefized wo/Id atlas

89.95

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Bars & Pipes

Professional mien sequencer

349.00

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Composition editor

99.95

Music X

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299.00

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149.95

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149.95

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749.00

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• 699.00

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A2Q0D internal drive

199.00

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Action Replay MK2

New version (of A500 and A2MW

249.00

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269.00'

Amiga A590 20MB Haiti Drive

Suits amiga 5&0 2meg ram options

699.00

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Ql. a iiy amiga m di

179.95

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Budget midi interface

109.95

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PcwSfful home computer

799.00

AMIGA 500 STARTER PACK

Ine tv modulator &. software

689.00

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1099.00

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1669.00

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1769.00

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40 Meg drive factory lilted!

2395.00

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2495.00

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The slufF thai dreams are made of

5695.00

Golden Image Optical Mouse

Extremely reliable Amiga mouse

13955

KCS Power Board A503

Ibm emulator for yo-jr a500 amiga

799.00

Monitor C8M 1084S

Stereo, suits amiga alari c64 & PC

449,00

Roctec Amiga Mouse

The best amiga mouse If

49.95

PC Emulator Bridge Board AT

Inc. 5-25" l-Zmegdn'Ye

799.00

Philips Monitor (CM8333I

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469.00

STARNX1000C

CotourS pir. Featu/e packed .

399.00

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Cok)ur9pin, Grea! performance

499.00

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Colour 24 pin. Feature packed

799.00

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Black 24 pin. Superb print

599.00

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299.00

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PEflMEG

1 49.95

Roctec Genlock

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299.00

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Slim external drive on/off switch

I4S.0O

Trurrtpcard Professional A2000 Too speed performance scsi interface 499.00

SCANNER 4' handheld

Cameron lype ' sliIs A500 only

B89.M

Scanner Golden Image

400 DPI suits all Amigas

399.00

Dkjiview PAL V4.0

Besl quality still digitizer

299.00

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499.00

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Animation for your pel

99.95

DELUXE PAINTS ENHANCED Besl graphic editor,' colour prinlirsg

99.95

GREMLINS PHI NT KIT 2

Fun printing package lor kids

29.95

LABELS UNLIMITED

Quality Label printing package

8995

NEWSROOM

Home desk top publishing

4995

PRINT POWER

Print cards A banners

29.95

PRINT SHOP

Print cards banners signs-

9995

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Excellent menu designer package

49.95

Nlnja Turtles Colour Book

Greal lun lor toe kids

49.95

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Mailing database system

109.95

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Quality communications package

tig.95

6 Week Cholesterol Cure

Book and software Quality package

59.95

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Accounting package

899.00

DATA MANAGER

Simple quality database

59.95

DGCALC

Pc spreadsheet

8995

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Quality 3 in 1 business package
Cash book

249.95

ON BALANCE

89.95

PUBLISH IT 1.2

Quality desk lop publishing

349.95

PUBLISH IT LITE

Budget dip package

99.95

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Superb gualrly spreadsheet

159.95

SW1FTCALC

Quality spreadsheet

59.95

SYSTEM 3

Quality business pack, call

129.95

WORD WRITER

Quality word processor *

79.95

ARCADE & ADVENT

ALTERED BEAST

Classic arcade game

59.95

ATF2

Sc-Fi 3D action game

69.95

BACK TO THE FUTURE 2

Arcade game ol the movie

69.95

BATTLE TECH 2

Cresent hawks revenge

69.95

BANDIT KINGS

Role playing adventure

99.95

SUCK HOGERS

Fantastic adventure fun

69.95

DOUBLE DRAGON 2

Hot arcade smash em up 1

59.95

ELVIRA

Adventure game horror fun

39.95

INDIANAPOLIS 500

Best 3d car racing seen 1

59.95

11 Came From The Desert

Excellent cinemaware horror movie

59.95

FOUNTAIN OF DREAMS

Fantasy adventure

54.55

GENGHIS KHAN

Excellent oriental strategy game

89.95

JONES IN THE FAST LANE

Yuppie Adventure Sierra! Hit

69.95

LAST NINJA 2

3D ninja lighting classic

59.95

PUNISHER

Hoi new release

89,95

STREET ROD

Buy it, build it up, n race it!

54.95

Teenage Mufanl Ninja Turtles
TEST DRIVE 3

Suck on the pizza dudes?

69.95

VGA 255 colour car driving game

6995

CENTURION

Relive the cays cl Ihe romans

59.95

CHAMPIONS OF KRYNN

Role playing nil

54.95

CODENAME ICEMAN

Sierra secret agent adventure

59.95

COLONELS BEQUEST

Sierra eps adventure game

69.95

CONQUEST OF CAMELOT

Sierra medieval quest

69.95

COUNTDOWN

VGA adventure spectacular

6995

KINGS QUEST 5

Epic sierra adventure in VGA

99.95

KINGS OUEST TRIFLE PACt

1,2.3 Of Ihe series

84.95

LARRY TRIPLE PACK

Leisure suit sarry 1,2 and 3

89.95 1

LEGEND OF FAERGHAIL

NEW ADVENTURE QUEST

69.95

MECH WARRIOR

It's back 1 Sc-Fi role playing epic

69.95

MEGATRAVELLER

The no.1 se-li role playing hilt

199.95 1

MONTY PYTHON

Classic madcap arcade madness

69.96 1

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MIGHT & MAGIC 2

Voted no. 1 adventure role playing

54.95

NIGHT BREED

Excellent horror adventure

69.95 1

NASCAH CHALLENGE

US NASCAR racing

69.95 1

NOBUNQAS AMBITION

Deep asian historic adventure epic

39.95 1

NOBUNGAS AMBITION2

Great sequel strategy

99.95

OPERATION STEALTH

Secret agent advonture hit

59.95 1

PUNISHER

Arcadesuperhefolunl

79.95 1

QUEST FOR GLORY 2

Sierra Hit new adventure

79,95

RISE ol the DRAGON

VGA 255 cull advemure game

79.95 1

RANX

Futuristic adventure

59.95 1

SECRET SILVER BLADES

More dSd role playing

54.95 1

SEARCH FOR THE KING

Elvis mystery adventure

69.95 1

SIERRA STARTER PACK

Space Quest t Larry ' Police Quesl

79.95 1

STELLAR 7

Fantastic Arcade game supports VGA 69.95 |

STAR CONTROL

Deep SC-FI adventure strategy game

69.95 1

SUPER OFF ROAD

Hoi new car racing lun

59.95 1

TRANSYLVANIA 3

Horror advemure

79.95 1

THEXDER 2 FIREHAWKS

Arcade smash hit

79.95 1

ULTIMA 6

Epic role playing hit

34.95 1

WING COMMANDER

256 colour space simulator

89.35 [

SPORTS

SO POOL

3 dimensional pool game

69.95 1

Jack Nicklaus Golf Designer

Golf simulator fantastic

69.95 1

ITALY 1950

Soccer mania

59.95 1

INTERNATIONAL SOCCER

Wow more soccer madness excellent

1 69.85 1

HARDBALL 2

Great baseball hit game

59.95 1

LINX GOLF

VGA 255 Ihe best golf

69.95 1

LAKERS VS CELTICS

Basketball at the top!

54.95 1

TV SPORTS BASKETBALL

Best selling sports hut!

79.95 1

TV SPORTS FOOTBALL

Best selling sports hit!

59.95 1

PRO TENNIS

Hanging in there sells well

59.95 1

PGA TOUR GOLF

Fantastic golf tun 1

59.95 1

World Class Leaderboard

Classic quality 3D gall

59.95 1

STRATEGY & SIMULATIONS

ACTION STATIONS

WWII naval simulation

79.95

BATTLE CHESS 2

Oriental chess 3d animated

6995

BLITZKRIEG

Bailie of Ardennes

79.95

BLUE MAX

WW2 Bi-plane herds

69.95

F15 STRIKE EAGLE 2

Air combat mission simulator

69.95 1

Ft 9 STEALTH FIGHTER

Complex lighter plane simulator

199.95

FIGHTER BOMBER

Voted #1 combat simulator

59.95

FLIGHT OF INTRUDER

Top quality tpghler piano simulator

69.95

GALLEONS ol GLORY

Battles at sea

7995

KNIGHTS OF THE SKY

Micro prose WWI simulation

89.95

RAILROAD TYCOON

The ultimate business simulation

89.95

SIM EARTH

Create yourown plane!

109.95

SILENT SERVICE II

Submarine simulator

79.95

AID TANK KILLER

Tank atlack aircraft simulator

69.95

COVERT ACTION

War Stralegy

79,95

CURSE OF AZURE BONDS

Role play ng acvenlure

54.95

DAS BOOT

World war 2 submarine simulation

69.95

HOYLESGAMES2

More excellent card games

69.95

JET FIGHTER

High speed combat simulator

69.95

LIFE DEATH 2

Your'e chance to be a brain surgeon

59.95

Ml TANK PLATOON

War simulator

89.95

NOB U NAG AS AMBITION

Deep strategy game anclenl Japan

08.95

MIDWINTER

3D strategy game ot Ihe future

39.95

MIG-29

Soviet 'light simulator

79.95

PAN2ER BATTLES

War game from SS3

49,95

RED BARON

WWI Hying simulation

79.95

SECOND FRONT

War time russian strategy -

69 95

STRATEGO

Strategy ooardgame

69.95

STORMOVIK

Russian fighter combat game

59.95

TEAM YANKEE

3D Nigh guality corneal game

69.95

TEST DRIVE 3

Excellent on VGA

69.95

THEIR FINEST HOUR

Brilliant 3d air combat game

69.95

WHITE DEATH

Strategy on russian from

79.95

WOL FPACK

WW2 sea combat submarine game

69.95

EDUCATIONAL

DUCK TALES

Educational

59.95

FIRST WRITER

Early word processing skills

29.95 <

FUNSCHOOL 2-6

Educational lun

49.95 1

1 FUNSCHOQL 6-8

Educational lun

49.95 1

FUNSCHOOL 8-UP

Learning skills

49.95 1

MATH BLASTER PLUS

Quality maths package

69.95 I

Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing Typing tutor

69.95 I

MICKEY ABC

Early educational

69.95 1

MICKEY SHAPES

Early educational

69,95

MICKEY MATHS

Early educational

69,95

PLAYROOM

Early learning fun & games

79.95 1

SIM CITY

Design & control a city

89.95 1

SPELL IT PLUS

Quality education package

69.95 1

WHEEL OF FORTUNE 2

Great family home game

39.95 1

Where In Europe Is Carmen

Geography game

84.95 1

WHERE IN TIME CARMEN

Teaches history & geography

34,95 1

WHERE IN USA CARMEN

Geography game

84.95 1

WHERE IN WORLD CARMEN

Geography game

34.95 1

WORLD ATLAS

Alias on computer, fanlast c :

89.95 1

HARDWARE

ADLIB SOUND CARD

The original sound card

239.60 1

PC COLT

Twin 5.25" XT computer

699.00 1

PC 1(1 series 111

Single 5.26' 40 meg HD XT computer

149600 1

PC 40 ser III VGA

AT 266. 1 meg ram. 40 meg HDJnc

1995.00 1

CGA MONITOR

4 colour PC monitor

449.60 1

EGAMQNTTOR

1$ colour HI -RES PC monitor t card

699.00 1

VGA MONITOR

256 colour HI-HES PC monitor * card

999.60 1

IBM GAME CARD

Requ red tor PC joystick

39.95 1

JOYSTICK ANALOG PLUS IBM QualJy joystick

59.95 1

JOYSTICK ANALOG EXTRA

Superb PC joystick

69.85 1

JOYSTICK PC

Budget PC joystick

29.95 1

SOUND BLASTER CARD

Magnificent PC sound ackkm!

349.00 1

LIGHTSCAN 20W SCANNER

Handheld scanner 20DDPI

199.09 1

LICHTSCAN «H SCANNEF

Handheld 400DPI with OCR

369.00 1

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Microsoft comoaiible 3 button

79.95 1

GENIUS PC MOUSE GM-F302 As above irre Graphic Art software

139.00 1

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159.00 1

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Create £ pnnt own awards

2995

1 PRINT POWER

Signs, calenders, banners

29.95

1 PRINT SHOP

Print signs.cards.banners

7905

1 DATA MANAGER

Quality database package

39.95

1 KWIKWRrTE

Budget word processor

29.95

1 MINI OFFICE 2

WordpfcJdbaserspreadsheeircomms

44.95

1 NEWSROOM

Desk lop publishing package

3995

1 PAPERCLIP PUBLISHER

Desktop publishing

54.95

1 SWIFTCALC

Fufly featured spreadsheet

39.95

1 TOP 20 SOFTWARE TOOLS

Great collection of classtc utilities

39.95

1 WORD WRITER 6

Promising word processor

69.95

■ ACTION REPLAY MK6

Hacker utility cartridge

13495

1 FAST LOAD CARTRIDGE

Limited stocks

49.95

1 EXPERT CARTRIDGE

Utility cartridge

14995

1 TURBOLOAD FASUOAD

Fasiloader canrkfge with reset

49.95

ARCADE & ADVENTURE

1 ATOMIC ROBOKID

Arcade smash hit

39.95

1 BACK TO FUTURES

Great game of Ihe movie

39,95

1 BUCK ROGERS

Comic Dock classic adventure

39.95

1 CASTLEVAN1A

Arcade adventure

39,95

1 DAYS OF THUNDER

Tom Cruise car action

49.95

1 DOUBLE DRAGON 2

Arcade smash hi!

39.95

1 DRAGON NINJA

Kong fu action game

39,95

1 E SWAT

Arcade action hit game

39.95

1 GHOULS a GHOSTS

Quality arcade conversion

39,95

1 GOLDEN AXE

Arcade smash hit

39.95

1 FLIMBOS QUEST

Arcade smash hit

34,95

1 KINGS BOUNTY

Adventure quest

39.05

1 NINJA REMIX

New release ol Last ninja

39.95

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Hit movie based arcade game

49.95

1 SHADOW WARRIOR

Kurrg lu hit arcade

39.95

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All 3 star wars games

3995

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Buy it, build it up, n' race rtl

44.95

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The best shoot-em up available!

39.95

1 WHEELS OF FIRE

Top collection ol racing car hftsl

39.95

1 Wonder Boy In Monster Land

Arcade smash hit

39.95

IBARDSTALE12S3

Role playing adventure

59.95

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Classic role playing epic; voyage

4995

1 CHAMP IONS OF KRYNN

Role playing hit

49.95

1 MONTY PYTHON

Arcade rrsadness

39.95

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Excellent role playing game

44.95

1 SECRET SILVER BLADES

Great new role playing hit!

39.95

1 STR1DER 2

Arcade smash hil

59,95

I SUPER OFF ROAD RACING

3D overhead racing

39.95

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Finally fs herelllll

39.95

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Movie hit game

49.95

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NEWCIassfc role playing

84.95

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| ALL STAR TEST CRICKET

New cricket game

39.95

1 BLADES OF STEEL

Ice hockey action

3995

1 JACK NICKLAUS GOLF

Great goir game

39.95

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Excellent classic hit I

29.95

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One on one basketball

29.95

1 ITALY 1999

Soccer mania

39.95

1 TV SPORTS FOOTBALL

3D spans game

49.95

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Soccer at it's best

39,95

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Still Ihe best tennis game

39.95

1 WORLD CUP 98 SOCCER

Excellent sports fun

39.95

1 ULTIMATE GOLF

New got! release

49.95

STRATEGY & SIMULATION

BATTLE CHESS

3D animated chess fun

39.95

1 CHESSMASTER 2100

Latest chess game

49.95

I CARRIERS AT WAR

Back at fast Ihe deepest simulator

39.95

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Strategic lank battles

39.95

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Classic space strategy

39.95

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Straiegic wargame

34.95

ULTIMA 5

UIBmate role playing game

59.95

ULTIMA TRILOGY

Ultima l^i 3 pack

69.95

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Gambling hils

44.95

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Quality racing game

39.95

Fl6 COMBAT PILOT

Combal flight simulator

49.95

1 F18 HORNET

Nice Air combat game

49.95

FIGHTER BOMBER

Voted best game, comba" simulator

39.95

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39,95

1 PROJECT STEALTH FIGHTER AiKOmbat simulator

49.95

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Submarine combat simulator

49.05 1

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TaWe soccer simulator ....

39.95

I UN SQUADRON

War simulation

39.05

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Family word game

2995

FUNSCHOOL

2-6Earty learning skills

24.95

FUNSCHOOL

6-SEducational fun

24.95

FUNSCHOOL

8-UPLearning is fun at homel

24.95

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Early learning game

59.95

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Basl typing furor

4995

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59.9!

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99.8?

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FAX MODEM?

Malcolm Moy of Chittaway Bay
NSW wrote in asking: "Is it really
true, that it is possible to send and
receive faxs with a modem and
printer?"

Yes, this is true! There is a fax
program for the Amiga floating
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You could also try a Fax/Modern
such as the 'Maestro 9600 XR Da-
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no Amiga software to support the

fax side yet.

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C 64

by Owen James

Mail-merged letters. Don't you just
hate computers that make out they
know you personally? Of course you
do. Who can stand getting letters like:

Dear John K. Citizen,

You, John, have been selected as a
lucky customer that can take advan-
tage of our incredible discounts this
month. Yes, John, so why don't you
and the rest of the Citizen family come
out to our warehouse and be part of
this unique offer etc, etc...

They're frustrating not just be-
cause they treat you like you're a per-
sonal friend, but also because it's so
darn obvious they come off a template
letter yet try to pretend they don't.
The problem is that they're limited in
what data can be changed in each let-
ter. Sure, you can change a name,
but what if you need more control?

Enter CeoMerge! CeoMerge gives
you the power that you've been long-
ing for. With this little 'power applica-
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to twenty different friends and STILL
have each one seemingly unique.

Merge gives us the 'IF and 'ELSE'
commands, which allows text to be In
a letter only if certain conditions are
met. Let's take an example:

If I've loaned various things to
twenty of my friends and I want to
write them a letter stating what
they've got of mine, or a thankyou
note if they've returned whatever it
was, I would ordinarily have a lot of
typing to do. Not so with CeoMerge.
Here's my letter template:

«tille» «ftrstname»«surname»

«address»,

«suburb»

«state» «poslcode»

Dear «flrstname»,
Hi! How are you? What's the weather
been like at «suburb» recently?
«IF returned='yes"» Thanks for re-
turning my «mine» so promptly. 1

ACAR34

really appreciate that!
«ELSE» I think you may have mis-
takenly overlooked returning my
«inine». Any chance I could get it
back soon please? «ENDIF»
«IF title= "Miss"» What are you do-
ing Saturday night?
«ELSE» Catch up with you some-
time!

Yours sincerely.

And here's what our database
looks like:

title

flrstname

surname

address

suburb

stale

postcode

mine

returned

*

Mr.

Melvin

Bore

16 Main Rd

Nerdsville

QLD

4029

Wild World of Chess book

no

*

Miss

Cass Ette

Lot B James Rd

Katoomba

NSW

2780

Pink Floyd tape

yes

*

The first section of the above list
is the label records. It tells GeoMerge
what labels will be used in the docu-
ment. After the asterik our data be-
gins which will be substituted for the
labels in the template document.
Here's what the two sample letters
would look like:

Mr. Melvin Bore
16 Main Rd,

Nerdsville
QLD 4029
Dear Melvin,

Hi! How are you? What's the
weather been like at Nerdsville re-
cently?

I think you may have overlooked
returning my Wild World of Chess
book. Any chance I could get it back
soon please?

Catch up with you sometime!
Yours sincerely,

Miss Cass Ette
Lot B James Rd,
Katoomba
NSW 2780
Dear Cass,

Hi! How are you? What's the
weather been like at Katoomba re-
cently?

Thanks for returning my Pink
Floyd tape so promptly. I really ap-
preciate that!

What are you doing Saturday
night?

Yours sincerely.

As you can see, because Melvin
hasn't returned my book he receives
a polite letter asking for it back (note
the word POLITE herei).

And because Cass has returned
my tape on time she gets a thankyou
note. Notice also that Cass is a 'Miss'
(Missed out?) and so we've asked
about Saturday night!

So how do we go about creating a
CeoMerge document? We need to be-
gin by thinking about the data that
we need changed between letters. Ob-
viously names will be different in
each copy, and possibly addresses
also. Then we need to think about
other changes. For instance you may
want to ask all your friends that own
a 64 whether they know a cheat for a
certain game, or you may want to ask
your Amiga owning friends if they
have any of the latest Fish disks.

To make all these sorts of changes
we use what CeoMerge calls 'labels'.
Labels are very much like the varia-
bles you use in BASIC in that they
hold certain data that can be recalled
and acted upon later. See the use of
labels in the above letters? The tem-
plate letter uses title, flrstname, sur-
name etc. With each letter that's
printed, die information in these la-
bels will change depending on the
contents of our database.

We can also control the way Ceo-
Merge acts on the contents of our da-
tabase. For example we could print
certain lines of text only if it relates to

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particular people, like if they owe you
$100, if they're single, or you might
want to send sympathy if they're an
Atari owner! Just use the IF- ELSE
commands.

That's just one very simple use of
GeoMerge, but it's much more versa-
tile than that. You can actually use
data from CeoDex, GeoFlle, GeoCalc,
or just about any other text based
GEOS application. Using the text
grabber application you could proba-
bly even use data from other pro-
grams that don't run under GEOS.

You could import figures from Geo-
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GeoDex or File, and create letters ac-
cording to the result. Unfortunately
the manual doesn't go into great de-
tail about this, so a lot experimenting
will be needed. Don't worry about
this. Experimenting is one of the best
ways to learn, and you may even find
features that aren't supposed to exist.

Recently I was using PageSetler II
on the Amiga and discovered thai
contrary to the manual (and what eve-
ryone else says) it does support flexi-
ble spacing in between individual
characters - a powerful feature that is

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ever tell you.

GeoMerge will even reformat your
document according to the size of the
labels. So if one of the names in your
database is Georgina Poppadopolous,
GeoMerge will wrap the words that
won't fit onto a line.

Another important feature of Geo-
Merge is the ability to enter merge
data manually. Great if you find you
need to create a merge letter 'on the
fly' and don't want to go through die
procedure of adding to a database.

Do and don't tips

And now some 'do and don't' tips
for all potential GeoMerge users:

DONT use people's names to a ri-
diculous extent in a merged docu-
ment. Just use them like you would if
it was a normal letter.

DONT try to pretend it isn't a
merged document. Most are obvious
anyway.

DO get the database right! Spelling

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errors are fatal in a merged docu-
ment because the words of the data-
base are quite often used more than
once. Also, if you miss parts of the
database you might just end up with
statements like "Could you please re-
turn my Katoomba", or worse "You're
a great friend. Pink Floyd tape". Get
the message?

DON'T use GeoMerge for every let-
ter you write, especially if they're to
dose friends. Lines like 'You're my
best friend, «firstname»", really
don't go down too well!

GeoTips

With the ability to use an Apple
Laser printer with GEOS came spe-
cial fonts to match. In case you're
wondering, these laser fonts can be
used without any hassle on a normal
dot-matrix printer. Some people
claim that the prints made with these
fonts are better than the usual ones.
Give them a try and see for yourself.

We all know that GEOS is heavily
copy protected for a good reason, but
the trouble is that sometimes there
may be a genuine need to make a
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All these troubles could be over if you
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I'd first heard about this from an
American Commodore newsletter
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available for a while, but does any-
body know where?

One fantastic application for this
program would be to make a backup
of GEOS but instead of saving It to
disk, putting it on an EPROM or even
the Quick Brown Boxes (a battery
backed memory device). Imagine it -
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with copy protection.

Anybody that has Vorpal Aid V4 or
knows its whereabouts would be a
friend for life if they contacted me!

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ACAR 38

he EDITOR

First of all,
thank you to eve-
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written in to Aus-
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nately we cannot
promise to an-
swer every letter
individually, but
we'll do our best.
If you keep your

letter reasonably short and to the point it will be pub-
lished.

We do read oil letters regardless, and often the an-
swers you're after may appear in one of our regular col-
umns. We can answer quick questions over the phone,
however we recommend you contact your local user
'group or software supplier for in depth problems.

Ideas to improve ACAR

I have just finished reading the January 1991 issue
of ACAR, and it was most enjoyable. I feel it competes
well with the majority of other Amiga and Commodore
magazines which are imported into the country. Its most
appealing feature of course is the price. How can it be so
cheap? However I do have to make some comment on
the fact thai there was only one page of letters - surely
there could be at least three or four. How about some
sort of forum for readers to exchange hints and tips on
productivity titles, not Just games?

Regarding your comments on Shareware software, I
think you are indeed right that you should consider any
money being exchanged as payment for what you have
already and you should not expect updates as a right.
However, it would be quite dishonest for a programmer
to keep accepting payments if they have no intention of
releasing upgrades. The problems arising from this are
clearly stated in this article (by Andrew Leniart).

Maybe the public domain software library companies
could act as intermediary by spreading any of the pro-
grammer's correspondence amongst Amiga users and ac-
cepting the money on the programmer's behalf and then
passing it on to him. In this way, the public domain dis-
tributors could pass on any updates quickly because
they would have regular correspondence with the pro-
grammer. Also the distributor would know what pro-
grams were being supported by the public. This way we
would know how much a programmer was making and
would know when we could expect an update, or if he
was making no money we could cut our losses and be
happy with what we have.

Graham Rutherford
Devonport. Tas

Ed; We will try to keep letters a good size so you have
plenty to read in each issue. Your idea about a forum for
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Regarding shareware, I think you've missed the point
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Ed: Well done, guys. We look forward to seeing your
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C 64

C64

by Greg Perry

Now we have our sprites set up, let's Jook at how we
can use them in our own programs.

We will look at a number of simple but interesting
techniques which you should be able to adapt to your
own programs.

Example: sprites as string data. The following program
displays three sprites using the same sprite data for each.
The sprite pattern of the number 64 sitting under a palm
tree, is set up in the data statements as string data. This
pattern can be readily changed by editing the program in
the normal manner.

Calculation of the correct 63 numbers for the sprite
pattern is done by dissecting the strings (check out the
method used and work out how it does it, Lines 320-350)
and the numbers are shown on the screen as they are
calculated. An "A" in the data string is taken as a screen
dot with bit value of 1 and a space is taken as bit value of
. The sprites used are sprite numbers 0-2.

Points to note:

• All three sprites use the same data block

• Remember thai sprite has priority over 1 and 2
and so will appear over the top of the images of the other
two.

• The sprite-background priority has been altered for
sprite 1 so thai it will pass underneath die screen image.

• All the sprites are programmed to randomly expand
in either direction when they cross at the centre of their
travels.

• For simplicity, sprite X position is never greater than
255.

Program! SPRITE GENERATOR

10 REM (C) GREG PERRY, BRISBANE 1984

loo REM SIMPLE THREE SPRITE GENERATOR

IIO REM SN=SPRITE NUMBER

120 REM V=START OF VIC CHIP

130 V =53248

140 REM SET EXPANDED SPRITES

150 POKE V+23,71 POKE V+29,7

160 REM CLEAR SPRITE RAM AREAS

170 FOR 1=832 TO IOZ3! POKE 1,0: NEXT

180 REM SET SPRITE POINTERS TO DATA BLOCK

I90 POKE 2040,13' POKE 2041,13: POKE 2042,13

20O REM POSITION SPRITE X AND Y ON SCREEN

2IO FOR SN=o TO 2

22Q POKE V+SN * 2,100+SN * 10: REM X POS

230 POKE V+I+SN*2,IO0+SN * 201 REM Y POS

240 REM ENABLE SPRITE SN

250 POKE V+2I, PEEK (V+21) OR (2*SN)

260 REM SET Colour OF SPRITE SN

270 POKE V+39+SN,2+SN: NEXT

280 REM READ DATA AND CALCULATE BYTE NUMBERS

290 FOR ROW=o TO 20

30a READ S$i PRINT S$;

310 FOR NO=o TO 2:N=o

320 FOR BIT=7 TO STEP -I

330 REM CALCULATE NUMBER

340 B7 MIDSCS$,I+NO*8+7-BIT,l)="A"THENN=N+ZABIT

350 NEXT BIT

)M REM PUT NUMBER INTO IMAGE MAP

370 POKE 832+ROW* J+NO,Nt PRINT N;

38O NEXT NOi PRINT

39a NEXT ROW

40O REM DISPLAY BACKGROUND AND MOVE SPRITES

41a PRINT "[CLR,DOWN4,RVS]";i FOR 1=1 TO 40* fa

PRINT "1<Q>V'V NEXT

420 REM SET SPRITE I TO UNDER SCREEN

430 POKE V+27,2

440 REM NOT EXPAND X AND Y
450 POKE V+23,0; POKE V+29,0
460 REM MOVE SPRITES
470 S=2SSt FOR 1=1 TO 255
4SO POKE V,Ii POKE Vt-1,1
490 POKE V+2,S-I: POKE V+3,S-I
500 POKE V+4,I: POKE V+ S ,S-I
5IO IF I0128 THEN 570

S20 REM RANDOMLY EXPAND SPRITES IN X 6T/OR Y
530 IF RND (o)>,2 THEN POKE V+23, RND Co)*7+-S
540 IF RND (o)>.2 THEN POKE V+29, RND Co) * 7 +.5
$70 NEXT 1 GOTO 450
690 REM SPRITE DATA

700 REM "765432107654321076543210"

710 DATA " AAA A AAA

720 DATA " AAAAA A AAAAA

730 DATA " AA AAAAA AA

740 DATA " AA AAA AA

750 DATA " AA A AA "

760 DATA "AA A AA "

770 DATA "A A A "

730 DATA " A

790 DATA " AAAAAAA A AA

800 DATA " AAAAAAA A AA

810 DATA " AA AA A AA

820 DATA " AA A AA

830 DATA " AA A AA

840 DATA " AAAAAAA A AA AA

850 DATA " AAAAAAA A AA AA

860 DATA " AA AA A AA AA

870 DATA " AA AA A AAAAAAA

880 DATA " AAAAAAA A AAAAAAA

890 DATA "A AAAAAAA AAA AA A "

900 DATA "A AAAAA AA A "

910 DATA "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA "

Exercises

1 . Design your own sprite in data statements.

2. Change sprite colours.

3. Change sprite movement routine,

4. Change movement to include full range of X 0-344.

5. Change expansion to X or Y expand only.
Example: Bouncing and full range of X To program a

sprite to "bounce" around the visible screen area, like a
ball on a billiard table, involves increasing or decreasing
the X and Y coordinates and ensuring that, when the
boundary (as defined above) is reached, the correspond-
ing X or Y movement is reversed in direction. This is
shown by the following subroutine.

Add these Lines to the program above.

550 REM RANDOMLY BOUNCE SPRITE

$60 IF RND(o)>.2 THEN GOSUB 590

S80 REM BOUNCE SPRITE AROUND SCREEN

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by Andrew Leniart

The number of letters asking for help
that have been flooding in to my post
office box Is pleasing to say the least.
So much so that I have decided to
take a break from discussing com-
mands this issue and come good with
the promise 1 made in the last issue of
ACAR.

This month, the column will be de-
voted to answering your queries and
trying to solve some of the problems
that you are having. If you find that
you have missed out this time, please
be patient. All letters will be covered
at some stage eventually.

Shell window

Our first problem comes from Ste-
ven McKinlay at Doncaster VIC who-
writes:

Dear Andrew, Your past CLI tutori-
als have been extremely helpful so I
wonder if you can help me with this
small problem. On one oj my disks I
lilce to load (or actually leave) a CLI
window open on the bottom oj the
screen after booting up with that disk.
So, in the startup - sequence, instead
of having endcli at the end of it, J just
shrink the window down to a smaller
size and display some text in it saying
something about the disk or some re-
minder notes I had put in the startup-
sequence last time. In this way the CLI
is conveniently ready to use straight
away or whenever I need it.

That's not the problem though.
What I really want there is a Shellwin-
dow (instead of a CLI) and all the text
from the startup -sequence to be dis-
played in this shell window. Is it possi-
ble to do that from the startup-
sequence and if so, how?

REPLY: Well Steven, first of all,
you neglected to mention whether or
not you were using the 1.3 version of
Workbench or whether you are still
using the old 1.2 version. If the latter
is the case, then you can't have a
Shell instead of a Cli as the 1.2 ver-
sion of AmigaDOS does not support
shells.

If you do use the 1.3 Version, then

to get a Shell instead of a CH, then
instead of issuing the command -
NewCli - simply make the entry
NewShell and you will have it.

In regards to having the text from
your startup -sequence appear in this
window, then yes, it is possible, but
why do you wish to do it that way?
Try this out for size - Make a blank
space somewhere before the end of
your star tup -sequence and enter the
following commands / lines:
DirRam:
Copy DfO:s/star tup-sequence Ram:

What this will do is actually create
a file in RAM: by the name of "start-
up-sequence" which you will then be
able to view at leisure whenever you
choose by using one of the many text
readers avail in the Public Domain or
via the "more" text viewing utility. A
lot neater way of achieving the same
result and saving yourself the hassle
of a cluttered CLI window at the bot-
tom of the screen. Try it, you'll like it.

Corrupt disks

Our next problem comes from An-
drew Gormly of Walkerville, SA who
writes:

Dear Andrew, When I first bought
my Amiga 500 in 1 987, a short time-
later nearly all of my store disks came
down with the "Disk structureCorrupt"
syndrome. Six weeks and $50.00
worth of of CLI books later S managed
to suppress the problem and clean all
my disks. I have never seen it happen
since (except for when I accidently
took my Bards Tale disk out too soon!)
I do not know if anyone else has had
anything like this, hut it spread exact-
ly like a virus does ■ infecting write-
enabled disks when placed in the
drive after a warm boot. What was it?
How did it happen? And will it come
again?

REPLY: The problem you describe
sounds suspiciously as though a vi-
rus was infecting your disks at the
time. Even if you had been checking
your disks regularly with a virus
checker, the one you were using may
not have been able to find it. The rea-
son you managed to stumble across

PART 11

a fix to the problem could be that by
going through all your disks you
somehow managed to eliminate the
culprit from your disks.

It has happened to others, indeed,
it's happened once to me so don't feel
as though you are the only one.
Whether or not it will happen again
depends on how stringent you are
vvilh new software that you get.

I find that a good rule io follow is
to assume any new piece of software
is virus-ridden until proven other-
wise. Get yourself a good virus check-
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and check each new disk you get be-
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Don't forget to check for both file
(link type Viri) as well as boot block
culprits as both are unfortunately
plentiful.

Script files

Moving onto the subject of Script
files, Harry Kloppenburg of Thornlie
in WA had this to say:

Dear Andrew, Many thanlcs for
your informative articles on the CLI.

There are indeed many glitches,
limitations and possibilities in CH
commands that are not directly obvi-
ous or explained enough. My particu-
lar problem has been with (fie nesting
of commands in a scriptfile.

Is progressive indentation in a
script file necessary or just a case of
neat programming? I found some ex-
amples of nested programming in Aba-
cus books hard to follow (using IF/
ELSE/ENDIF or similar commands).
One or preferably a few examples of
this will be greatly appreciated. Thank
you kindly for your efforts.

REPLY: Ok. for the benefit of
those that may be a little in the dark
on the subject of script files, let's
start at the beginning. What is a
Scriptfile?

A script file (sometimes referred to
as a batch jile) is a text file that can
be written or created with any text
editor like ED on your workbench or
even NotePad.

Their purpose is usually to make
life easier for you when working in
the Cli by enabling you to execute
several commands one after the other
simply be executing the one script
file.

There are a couple of rules which
must be followed when writing a
script file which might be worth men-
honing here.

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Firstly, the written file MUST be
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has the capability to save the file in
Ascii format. Wordprocessors can of-
ten put in weird little control codes in
files not normally visible to you which
cause havoc when AmlgaDOS goes to
read the file.

Another important rule which
must' be followed is that an Amiga -
DOS script file may only contain Aml-
gaDOS commands and routines and
nothing else. The reason for this will
become apparent shortly. An excep-
tion to this rule exists if you have
some other (third party) commands
which you have obtained in the Public
Domain libraries or from some maga-
zine coverdlsks or wherever.

What a script
file looks like

A very simple script file could look
like this:

Echo "Script file just executed"

Echo "Wasn't that fun?"

Echo "End of Script File"

That's itl If you were to type this
useless three finer into your favourite
text editor and save the file with a
name like "Example" then you would
be able to execute it in a Shell or Cli.
Type "Execute Example" in a Cli or
Shell and the result will be the three
lines above being displayed in the Cli
window the script was executed from.

in reply to your question on
whether or not command indentation
is necessary in script files, then the
simple answer is no. It depends on-
your personal taste. Some people like
to indent their script files as it makes
them easier to follow, for THEM. Oth-
ers, like yourself, feel differently. Look
at the following two examples of a
simple startup-sequence. One is writ-
ten without indentation, the other
with. But both would work equally
well:

Example 1
ask "Load WorkDench? [Y-Yes N-No)"
if warn
echo "Loading Workbench "load wb

else

echo "Ok, CLI session then.."

quit

end if

ask "Open a small CLI as well? (Y-yes

N-No)"

if warn

newcfi "con:0/0/200/50/Newcli"

else

end cli >nil:

endif

Example 2

Ask "Load WorkBench? [Y-Yes N-No)"

If warn

Echo "Loading Workbench"
LoadWb

Else

Echo "Ok, Cli session then.."

Quit
Endif

Ask "Open a small Cli well? (Y-yes N-
No)"

If warn

NewCli "con:0/0/200/50/Newcli"

Else
EndCli >Nil:
endif

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above, nor does not matter if the com-
mands or text contained within a
script file are written in CAPITALS or
lower case. Look through previous is-
sues of ACAR for more examples on
script files and how to take the best
advantage of them. In any case, I
liked your letter so a PD disk is on its
way for your input.

Redirection

Next problem comes via Penrith in
NSW where Michael Davis writes:

Dear Andrew, thank you for your
great tutorial on the CU. It is past the
time when this should have been at-
tempted. I have had an Amiga 500 for
two years now, and using the magnifi-
cent Commodore instruction hook I have
been totally confused. \AL: Wasn't that
the purpose of the book in the first
place?]

I am having a problem with two com-
mands, first the redirection. When I en-
ter:

"Type > prt: opt a."
the Amiga responds with
"Error - Unable to open the redirection
file"

I ask it why and it tells me that the
last command did not set a return code.

The other problem is the "Copy * to
prt:" The Amiga says "Can't open prt: ob-
ject in use" so again I ask Why and gel
the did not set a returncode routine. I
have tried both Workbench 1.3 and
Workbench 1.3.2 with ARP installed,
with the copy command, I used "Copy *
to par:" and this seemed to work ok

REPLY: I've never struck this prob-
lem before and had no luck in trying to
reproduce it on my Amiga 500. However
the error you are getting in your first
problem indicates that the Amiga is hav-
ing problems locating the printer and
the Tact that Copy * to par: works ok in-
dicates that the machine is using the
Par: device to use the printer rather
than Prt:

Try going into Preferences and
changing the Par /Serial setting from
one to the other and see if that helps. If
it doesn't then perhaps some other read-
ers have experienced the same problem
and may be able to offer some help!?

Fat Agnus

Wally Kerr of West Geelong in Victor-
ia writes:

Dear Andrew. Thank you for you
great article CU Tutorial in ACAR - it has
been a great help to me and there must
be thousand of others, I am using an
Amiga 500 with a 512k expansion with
workbench 1.3V.

In your last article in ACAR part 8
about mounting RAD after following your
steps 1 could not after rebooting get a
RAD icon. The only way I could bring up

an icon upon boot up was to either copy
something to RAD first or D1R RAD in the
Shell after wluch an icon would turn up
called RAMBO and not RAD.

Is this nonnal or am I a novice with
the Amiga doing something wrong?

Also can you tell me and others about
the new Fat Agnus Chip? I have been
told it is in the new Amiga 500 but you
must have a modification done inside the
AMOA. What does this chip do and is it
worth having this modification done?

And can you recommend any PD or
commercial programs for checking the op-
eration of the Amiga. 1 sometimes have
program crashes and Guru's coming up
on screen. I have used a memory diag-
nostic program and have no memory
problems. Will a disk drive with dirty
heads cause the Amiga to guru?

REPLY: Hi Wally. The problem of a
RAD icon not appearing automatically
after boot up is almost surely being
caused by the fact that your machine is
fitted with a 1.2 version kicks tart Rom.
(Read only memory chip). That's what
gives you the insert workbench hand
prompt when you first power up your
machine. You could take your machine
to your local Comcare centre and have
the 1.3 Rom fitted to your machine, but
a cheaper and easier solution is this:

En your startup -sequence somewhere
after you have "mounted rad". simply
put in another line with "Dir Rad:" and
the problem will be fixed. You can then
rename the Rad disk to whatever you
like by inserting another line under-
neath that one which contains "Rename
Rad: <Newname>".

If you opt to go for the upgrade chip,
then you could have the new Fat Agnus
chfp fitted at the same time.

The difference between the newer Fat
Agnus chip and the one you have in
your machine at the moment is actually
quite dramatic. The Agnus chip in your
machine at the moment can address
512K of Chip Ram, Chip ram is needed
for any graphic capabilities on the Ami-
ga including the windows used for work-
bench etc. It is a totally different beast
to fast memory [ram:] that you get when
plugging in the A501 memory expansion
for example so should not be confused.

Fat Agnus on the other hand has the
capability of addressing 1 Megabyte of
Chip Ram. With it, you have doubie the
graphic capabilities on your machine
than before, ie: You could have twice the
amount of windows open on workbench
than you could before and not run out
of Chip Ram, A highly useful and need-
ed feature if you plan to do a fair bit of
work with applications such as Deluxe
Paint, digitising or similar.

While it is possible to buy a Fat Ag-
nus chip and fit it yourself, a few modifi-
cations are needed to be made to your
machine so it is highly desirable to have
the chip fitted by a qualified computer
technician.

As for your last query, yes, it is pos-
sible for a disk drive with dirty heads to
be the cause of a guru but unlikely if
you are not getting read write errors
from your disks normally. Rather, I
would be looking towards the applica-
tion I was running at the time of the
crash as it would more likely be the
cause.

PD diagnosUc programs do exist,
though I've never used one myself so
can't recommend one for you as you
asked. The place to look for one would
be in a good PD catalogue that lists the
various Fish disks and others. There are
a few excellent PD distributors around
that have a catalogue you could get hold
of and check out. Two come straight to
mind and those are Prime Artifax and
Megadisc both advertised in each issue
of AC&AR.

Printing your artwork

Steven Williams of Gosnells in Perth
WA writes:

Dear Andrew, My question concerns
computer art, as I have purchased De-
luxe Paint III and seen the results that
can be obtained, is there a way to have
good quality prints made? It seems that
no dot matrix can achieve this as men-
tioned in an article by Alan Kirk in your
magazine about the Epson LQ86Q print-
er. Then how do you get what you want
without purchasing an Inkjet printer,
which is way beyond my financial
means and most everyone else's. Is to
get your work of art as you see it on
screen, to paper, an impossible situa-
tion?

REPLY: Your problem of getting good
quality printouts without it costing too
much can be solved by finding a firm or
third party which will do it for you. Look
for ads in magazines as there are often
people advertising a service such as
this. A few are Desktop Utilities in Can-
berra, Megadisc and Prime Artifax.

Alternatively, if you have a modem or
know a friend that has one, try posting
a couple of messages in echo areas on
the bulletin boards asking if anyone
would be willing to print your works of
art for a reasonable Tee. Tried your local
user Amiga user group to see if they
have access to a printer that will do
what you need? Use a bit of imagination
and pretty soon you will have contacts
all over the place.

Well, that's about it for this month. I
think IVe just about covered the ma-
jority of queries readers have had.
While I don't have the time these days
to enter into personal correspondence
with readers, I will continue to answer
as many letters as I can through
these pages spread over future issues
so please keep them coming.

Till the next time, keep hammering
that keyboard. Q

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Detachable Keyboard

In the news this month is word of a detachable key-
board for the C64. I haven't heard a great deal about it as
yet, except that it has a six foot long cable between the
keyboard and the C64 to allow the most comfortable posi-
tion for typing. 1 hope the keys are set out like those of a
standard keyboard!

The people to contact are:

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Reach your potential

This month I thought we'd take a look at using the
C64 to its full potential. Sure, everyone knows about us-
ing it for word processing and playing the odd game but
that's not all that the 64s good for. Read on and learn
how versatile your 64 really can be.

EDUCATION: We've all seen those cute littie programs
for junior that show flashing numbers, bouncing turtles,
and animated bears that have somehow been given the
power of rational thought. Great, but how about us big
kids? There's a noticable shortage of educational software
for the over 10's, so it's up to us to write our own.

Next time you're studying for the HSC, a diploma, or
Just coming to grips with learning to program, write down
some questions that are related to your subject. Think

about possible exam questions, or questions that you
know you would have difficulty in answering. Write your-
self a simple database program with the questions and
answers in DATA statements. Have the 64 ask the ques-
tions and then request an answer in a simple INPUT com-
mand. The 64 can keep repeating the ones you get wrong
until you get each question correct every time. This is
based on the method of 'Socrates', where simple ques-
tions are repeated over and over again until any weak-
nesses are ironed out through repetition of the questions
and answers. Simple, but very effective.
CATALOGING^ You may have catalogued all of your
disks so that you know what files are where, but what
about everything else? Use your 64 to catalogue your
CDs. videos, or bottle top collection.

Even more productive is using your 64 to catalogue
magazines. I get just about every C64 and Amiga maga-
zine I can lay my hands on and, as you could imagine,
that adds up to quite a few mags. The only trouble is that
when I'm looking for a particular article I can spend a
complete weekend searching. My solution was to put to-
gether a litUe program that catalogues my magazines
quickly and simply. When I need to look for an article I
just type the subject name, such as 'music' and it will
give me a complete list of magazine references. I could
even be more specific. For instance if I'm looking for a
particular programming article that I know was written
by Mark Jordan I can choose to type in his name as well
to give a more specific list.

Game cheats are also great for this. Catalogue your
game pokes etc. When you're finding you're having trou-
ble with Batman, for in stance, type 'BATMAN' and have
your program give a list of magazine references for pokes.

PERSONAL INFO: Keep a diary? How about computer-
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software, you could keep track of what you did, when,
and where. In years to come, when friends have boxes full
of large, bulky, paper- based diaries, trying to work out
what to do with them all, you can pull out your two or
three disks containing your complete life stoiy and read
what you were doing way back in 1991, And if you can

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lay your hands on a copy of "Hey, big
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How about personal details? I'm
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file numbers written on paper in fear
of them getting into the wrong hands.
Keep them stored on computer. Most
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home users won't have to worry too
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And time scheduling? Computers
are great for this. Plan your time us-
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Appointment Manager, from one of
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feature to remind you of where you
should be and when! Paper- based
time sheduling is messy because no
matter how carefully you plan it out
there will be changes, re-changes,
and re -re -changes, which adds up to
one very awkward appointment book.
Be efficient. Use the 64!

CONTROLLING EXTERNAL

DEVICES: The 64 can control lights
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dios, alarms, and just about anything
else that uses a switch. I'll be honest
and admit right here that I've never
tried to myself, but I've seen many
books on doing this using a 64, and
even one or two working examples.
The Beyond 2000 Science Awards
some years back had one entrant us-
ing his 64 as weighing scales which
gave a digital display on screen. Great
ideas that the C64 is more than capa-
ble of.

BUDGETING: Not only can you see
all your hard earned cash being spent
on worthless items, but with a 64 you
can see it in FULL COLOUR WITH
SOUND! Your 64 won't care about be-
ing subtle when it comes to reporting
your financial affairs! Watch animated
graphs slowly falling towards the zero
line. That's the fun of computerised
accounting and budgeting.

If you want to be boring, though,
you might want to just keep track of
cheque numbers, bank balances, and
bankcard debts without the bells and
whistles. It is more accurate, easier,
and uses less paper (who said com-
puter addicts don't care about the en-
vironment?).

HOME SHOPPING: Get to know

what on-line services are available.

Telecom's Discovery service is great
for a number of purposes. 24-hour
news, sport, and weather, electronic
banking, booking holidays, betting.
It's all there. Even some Australian
computer magazines have their arti-
cles on-line to read or down-load.
ON-UNE FRIENDS: A modem is a
communications aid, so communicate
with ill Make friends with other BBS
users. Get a computerised pen -friend.
Use it to meet other people with a
computer obsession.

The above short list is just a sam-
ple of some of the more interesting
things the C64 can be used for. There
are thousands more just waiting to be
discovered. I'd even heard news about
a person linking three C64s together
to create a three manual organ. This
was nine note polyphonic (that's more
than my Technics SX-E8L!). An out of
the ordinary use that just goes to
show the versatility of the 64.

Letters

Since my article on the MCS 810/
820 a few months back IVe received
word from numerous individuals who
say that the situation is much worse
than I thought. Here's a sample of the
mail:

"... after about one month an im-
printed line appeared on the paper.
Being a good operator I read the in-
struction manual which said to clean
the head, this did not, however, have
any effect. So off to the service agents
who tested the printer and informed
me that the head had failed and I
would have to buy one ($90.00), as
they only have a one week warranty!!!
"Needless to say I was not Impressed
so I wrote to Commodore who in-
formed me they are a "consumable" (A
$90.00 consumable in a $300.00
printer?). However, under the circum-
stances, they would provide me with a
new one free of charge, this arrived,
was fitted and things returned to nor-
mal.

"Just when I'm getting to grips
with using it all, you guessed it, the
printer head failed again, at nine
months.

"I therefore called the Customer
Service dept, in Sydney, and had a
iong talk with the supervisor, who
agreed with me, that I had experi-
enced more than my fair share of
problems. It was arranged that Com-
modore would take my MCS 820 as a
trade-in on either a Commodore 1230
or Star NX 1000CL.

"I'm sure that if every person who
is dissatisfied with his/her printer,
wrote to Commodore and complained

perhaps something would be done
about it." Stephen L. Hack,

Carindale, Brisbane
Don Dixon, of Port Willunga in SA,
had similar problems with the print-
head.

Obviously there is a major problem
here. I strongly recommend any user
that has experienced genuine prob-
lems to write to Commodore in Lane
Cove. Sydney demanding a solution to
the problem.

If you have had similar bad experi-
ences with the MCS 810/820 then let
me know of the details. The MCS
models were reasonably big sellers so
I'll bet that there are more stories of
problems. I'll keep you up to date with
future developments.

In fairness I should say that I have
been the owner of two MCS printers
and had only minimal complaints
about them.

I should also point out that the
MCS 810/820s need special care be-
cause they are thermal. If you print
too many pages in one session the
head is likely to overheat, though
there is supposed to be an in -built
feature' that let the user know when
there was a problem such as this. You
must also be careful of the type of
paper used in it. Rough paper is likely
to wear out the printhead faster. Still,
this is no excuse for some of the prob-
lems ouUined above. Let's see what
Commodore are prepared to do about
this problem.

Tips and Tricks

Space doesn't permit a great deal
in this section this month, so just a
few quickies.

• Continuing with the theme of
the MCS81 0/820, it has been pointed
out to me that not all users realise
that thermal fax paper will work with
their printer. Many people find fax
paper better because it's often cheap-
er and comes in a roll. I normally use
100 sheet packets of A4 thermal
paper which cost around $13 dollars.
I find it's slighUy better quality than
fax paper.

• The C64 mightn't have an ele-
gant 'print®' feature, but you can still
control cursor positioning. Just use
POKE 211.X : PRINT : POKE 214.Y
where X and Y are your coordinates.

• Hopefully I'll have space for more
tips and tricks next month. Remem-
ber that I'm always on the lookout for
tips, tricks, questions and sugges-
tions.

Drop me a line care of: ACAR. PO
Box 288 . Gladesville 2111. Q

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Screen shots
from Pactronics

From this month, you'll
notice a great new look in
the AGAR Entertainment
pages. If all goes well, we
will be running screen
shots grabbed from most of
our latest games with the
fabulous Pactronics Action
Replay II cartridge. While
some Amiga graphics
modes can't be grabbed ef-
fectively, with most the re-
sults are great.

As well as grabbing
screen graphics, the car-
tridge lets you freeze
games, examine memory
for cheat codes and even
modify programs for infinite
lives. Handy gadget! For
more information about the
Action Replay cartridge
phone Pactronics on 02
748 4700.

"Gods" from
Mindscape UK

This divinely titled new

arcade-strategy game is al-
ready getting rave reviews
in the UK press. Watch out
for it from our local Mind-
scapers some time this
month - and you'll see a re-
view in ACAR soon too!

Sim -City
scenarios

Dataflow have just re-
leased two new scenario
disks for Sim-Ciiy fans.
You'll need a copy of Sim-
City and at least 1 meg of
RAM to run Ancient Cities or
Future Cities - you'll be able
to build your own towns in
Ancient Asia. Medieval Eng-
land and the Wild West with
Ancient Cities, also Future
Europe, Future USA and
even a Moon Colony with
the Future Cities disk. For
more information phone Da-
taflow on 02 331 6153.

Hints disk

Don't forget you can or-
der an Amiga disk contain-

ing text files of all our hints
and tips from the last two
years. It's packed with good
ideas, but you'll need a
standard Amiga word pro-
cessor to read them. To get
your copy, send a blank
disk, stamped, self ad-
dressed envelope and a
cheque for $5.00 (payable to
Phil Campbell) to: Phil
Campbell, PO Box 23, Macl-
ean NSW 2463.

Hill Street Blues
available at last

Good news for fans of
TV's Hill Street Blues. A
game based on the series is
now available from Pactron-
ics. Featuring a great intro
sequence, with scenes digit-
ised from the show, Hill
Street Blues looks like a
very promising game.

AMOS club
hits 1200
members

The AMOS club is a

great way to get into the art
of AMOS programming. If
you've got AMOS and you'd
like to Join the club make
sure you send your regis-
tration form - you'll find it
in the AMOS box. If you've
lost your form, ring Neil
Miller at Pactronics on 02
748 4700. When you join.
you'U have access to a huge
library of AMOS public do-
main programs, music and
graphics - as well as plenty
of advice, and a handy
monthly newsletter.

Lemmings
running hot

Mindscape report that
Lemmings is now the most
popular computer game in
the world! While they may
be exaggerating a little, the
game is racking up phe-
nomenal sales, and it's in-
credibly popular. With good
reason too! If you haven't
ordered your free demo disk
from Mindscape, do it now!
See the coupon on the back
of March's ACAR.

•*»%-

MINLjv/.PE INT

MINDSCAPE COMPETITION

w
i

V

This month's competition features SWTV - a cryptic acronym for Silkworm TV.

The game is the follow up to Silkworm, still remembered as the best Amiga

shoot-'em-up ever. We're giving away five copies of the game shared between

Amiga and C-64 entries. (Yep -this time C-64 gamers are In luck! There's a

SWTV for you too.)

What do you have to do? It's easy. Simply make all the words you can from

the letters SILKWORMIV. Each letter can only be used once. Put your entry in

an envelope addressed to:
Phil Campbell, SILKWORM Comp,
PO Box 23 Maclean NSW 2463
Write your total on the back of the envelope, and post it before June 3rd.

That's all there is to Itl

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Letters

To get your views
in print, write to:
Phil Campbell, PO
Box 23 Maclean
NSW 2463, or fax
066 452060. Re-
member, that's the
address for gaming
letters only - any-
thing else goes to
the other end of the
mag!

Terry's

Adventure

and Tassie woes

Dear Phil .Would anyone
out there in Amiga land
have a cheat for Terry's Big
Adventure?

Also, is there any way
that competition deadline
dates could be longer as I
would have loved to have
entered February's compe-
tition, but the deadline was
the end of February and we
didn't get the magazine
down here in Tassie till
March 1st. so how could I
enter? This happens quite
regularly in Tassie, every so
often I want to enter your
competitions but we have
either missed the deadline
or only have 3 or 4 days to
do the competition and get
the letter posted, and that
just isn't enough time! So
please be kind and take
pity on us Tassies who
don't want to miss out - see
what you can do for us!

Christine Jones
Penguin Tasmania

Ed: Sorry Chris! We've
been in a bil of a mess with
our competition deadlines
lately, magazines have been
late because of the Amiga
Annual, but we're doing our
best to be fair to all our

readers. Generally, we'll try
to allow at least three weeks
after the release date of each
issue - tlvaugh we need to
close in time Jbr the winners
to be notified in the following
month's edition. We'll keep
you posted on replies for
TERRY'S BIG ADVENTURE.

Boulderdashing
on the C-64

Dear Phil, My friends
and 1 are newcomers to the
C-64 and AGAR, and as
there is not a lot on the C-
64 we have read AGAR well.
We are hooked on the game
Boukierdosh - our collection
is "Series Games 1-4" and
we have been able to work
out the caves alter lots of
trial and error, except for
cave N-zigzag on series 1.
Any assistance would be ap-
preciated. We have tried
many ways, and time - or
the fireflies - always seems
to beat us. We are able to let
out 2-3 butterflies and turn
them to diamonds, but time
runs out.

Robyn Whiteman

23 Goddard Cres

guakers Hill NSW 2763

Ed: If you can help Robyn
out of her tight spot, write to
her direct, or drop us a line
here at AGAR. There must be
plenty of top Boulderdashers
out there!

Pirates ahoy!

Dear Phil, I'm writing
about your attitude lo pi-
rates. When you say things
like "Ooh! Look at that
naughty pirate," they don't
stop - they just laugh. You'll
never stop school kids
handing disks to each other

- but why can't they do
something about the big
people such as Australian
Crackers United?

Maverick,
Croydon Park, NSW

Ed: Boy, no worKler you
didn't put your real name
on your letter. I don't say
"Ooh, look at the naughty
pirate!" I say things more
like "Ooh, look at the way
Cinemaware has just gone
broke. Who will be next?" In
other words, my main con-
cern as we watch more and
more software companies
going down the gurgler. Is
how are we going lo support
them to the point where
they can actually survive in
the business? 'Cause if they
can't, then there won't be
any software left to swap in
the playground!

Excellent mag

Dear Phil. This issue,
March 1991, which I got
just today is my second
and I'm already impressed!
I like the way your maga-
zine is set out lo cover all
people's tastes. Welt done
on an excellent magazine.

IVe enclosed a solution
to Mark Peterson's problem
with Rick Dangerous - but
I've got a problem with the
very next screen. 1 can leap
onto the first ledge but
when I try to leap to the
second ledge the missile (or
spear) always gets me.
Please help - IVe tried

everything!

Reading David Bank's
letter and the editor's reply
about an Amiga disk with
Amiga tips and hints, how
about one for the C64 (i am
a C128 owner, there has to
be more than one!) for
around $5.00? If you can
do it for the Amiga surely
you can do it for the C64!

Adam Wade
Ridleyton SA

PS. Could you please
print this letter, I've written
letters to other mags like
Zzap, C+VG, CU, but with
no success. I'd really appre-
ciate it if you did print this
letter.

Ed: Let's start at the end
and work back. We printed
your letter. Congratulations!

Now, a quick reminder to
all our readers that you can
get a disk full ofACAR hints
and tips by sending a blank
Amiga disk and stamped,
self addressed envelope
with a cheque for $5.00 to
the address above.

C-64 users aren't so
lucky - all our text Jiles are
in Amiga format, and con-
verting lo C-64 disks would
be time consuming. There
would have to be a BIG de-
mand to make it worth the
trouble. If you're interested,
let us know so we can
gauge the demand.

Thanks Jbr your RICK so-
lution. Hope someone does
the same for you so you can
get through your own sticky
problem.

Mindscape "Ultimate Ride"
Competition Winners

Congratulations to these winners in the Mindscape
Ultimate Ride Word Competition.

• First prize goes to: Peter Tate of Goonellabah
NSW, with his huge tally] of 1046 words. Well done!

• Second Prize goes to Taffy Jones of Padbury WA,
with 860 words.

• Third to Ron Kelly of Kerang Vic, with 767.

• Fourth to Mr M.N. Quan of Mt Pritchard NSW
with 747.

• Fifth to G. Cook of Wulguru. Qld with 728.
You'll all receive a copy of Mindscape 's top class

ULTIMATE RIDE for your trouble. And what of

Chris Wootton, who usually storms home in our

word competitions? A mere 347 words. What went

wrong Chris?

ACAR 58

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IINTS

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£ Utips

AMIGA

Send your Amiga hints
and tips to Phil Campbell,
PO Box 23 Maclean NSW
2463, or fax them on 066
452060.

Xenon 2

Mark Porta, of North
Balwyn [Vic) has completed
Xenon 2, with a high score
of 1,107,280 - which
means he's very well quali-
fied to offer a bit of advice.
Here it is ...

1 . If you have autofire,
turn it on. In shop 1, don't
sell your rear shot. To kill
the fish, hit it in the eye.

2. In shop 2, sell the
rear shot, buy the double
shot and side shot. To kill
the Crayfish, go up the side
and get the back eyes first.
Now go to the next side,
and then the front.

3. Don't sell anything in
shop 3 - buy a small life. To
kill the spider, go up the
back and wait for it to
move, then lire at the
fangs.

4. In shop 4, sell the
side shot and buy the laser.
Don't stay in the corner
when you're attacking the
crab.

5. Don't sell anything in
shop 5 - buy a life. Stay in
one spot as you attack the
snake.

6. In shop 6, sell the
rear shot and buy the side
shot. Attack the dragon
from the back.

7. In shop 7, sell the
dome and buy the side
shot. When attacking the
face, first get the eyes -
watch out, because they've
got lasers.

8. Don't sell anything in
shop 8 - buy homing mis-

siles. Hit the gold square to
kill the tank,

9. Don't sell or buy any-
thing in shop 9 - go back
and kill everything else be-
fore you attack the giant
space ship.

Thanks for the top class
tips, Mark! Hints like this
are better than cheats, be-
cause the game will still be
a challenge - if any other
readers have mastered a
game, how about sending in
a similar "guided tour."

Rick Dangerous

Adam Johnston of Coal
Point NSW sends this solu-
tion to Mark Peterson's
problem with Rick Danger-
ous.

Mark wrote in the March
issue saying "I can't get past
the Egyptian level where
you have to shoot the rock
to make the stone fall down
for you to climb on and get
down to the next section
where the spears come out
of the wall. I've tried every-
thing possible!" Not quite
everything, but Adam agrees
it's a tough problem.

"This is the most frus-
trating point in the game."
says Adam, "and I discov-
ered the solution more by
luck than by skill." So here's
what you do:

'You should have five
men when you reach this
point as you'll probably lose
two or three until you per-
fect the timing.

"Once you have shot the
wall and crawled down onto
the ledge, drop down onto
the next ledge and immedi-
ately duck the spear. Crawl
to the right to the edge of
the ledge until you're hang-
ing on by your toe nails!
That's the easy bitl

"The next bit is where
the timing gets critical. Wait
until a spear is coming to-
wards you. then stand up
and jump over the spear at
the last second, landing on
the first platform. While the
second spear is overhead,
run forward. As soon as it
has passed, jump again
onto the second platform.
You should just miss the

third spear, if you don't, try
experimenting on the sec-
ond jump. It's easier if you
jump diagonally upwards
and then drop vertically
downwards. Once on the
second platform, shoot the
wall to remove the spikes,
and you're then almost
halfway through level 2."

Thanks for the advice,
Adam -just more proof that
this is the computer mag
with the best quality read-
ers!

Ports of Call

"I'd like to shed some
light on Steven McKinlay's
problem with Ports Of Call
described in March ACAR."
says the mysteriously
named Maverick, of Croy-
don Park NSW. "It actually
isn't compulsory to rescue
the life rafts - all Steven
has to do is to turn away so
he doesn't hit ihem, and go
full steam ahead!" Thanks
for the tip, Maverick - but
I'll bet there are a lot of lit-
tle computer guys floating
round who wish you hadn't
passed on such a mean
ideal

More on

Rick Dangerous

Adam Wade, of Ridley-

ton SA, also offered to shed
some light on the Rick Dan-
gerous dilemma.

"Walk onto the stone
that falls down, shoot the
left wall (the one where the
spikes come out if you walk
over to it}, squat down a
couple of times then wait
until it falls. Crawl out be-
fore it goes back up and
you've done it," says Adam,

Over the Net

"IVe got a tip on the
game Over The Net." says
Peter Lawrie, of Cleve, SA.
"First, choose a one set
game, play the sea -cup and
enter one team or two hu-
man players. When it's
your turn to serve, move
the non- serving player up
to the top of the court close
to the net. This will force
one of the computer players
to follow him. Now do a
jump serve (push up and
fire), then hit the ball to the
other computer player by
pushing right then down.
The ball should drop be-
tween him and the net and
he should miss the ball.

"Hopefully this plan
should work. I don't know if
it works with the other
teams like Coco, Freaks etc
but it works with the Roll-
ers and the Golden Boys."

IMMORTALITY

sir x.x~x

C64

Battle Valley

Surprisingly enough,
some magazines didn't like
this wonderful game, but 1
think it's still good even
though it's old... Here's a
bunch of tips I threw to-
gether a while ago, but nev-
er did anything with:
•POKE 16371,0 - Disable
time

•POKE 26087, (0-15) -
Change title colours
•POKE 11612, (0-15)
•POKE 11617, (0-15) -
These two change the fore-
ground colour

•POKE 11341, (0-15)
•POKE 11346. (0-15)
•POKE 11351, (0-15) -
These three change mid-
ground colours.
•POKE 11130, (0-15)
•POKE 11135, (0-15)
•POKE 11140, (0-15) -
These three change back-
ground colours.

And after you've fin-
ished with that lot, type
"SYS 25952" to see your
te ch n icol our maste rpiec e !

Ghouls 'n'
Ghosts

Personally I don't think
this conversion is as good

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as Its prequel, Ghosts 'n'
Goblins, but it's all a mat-
ter of opinion.

Here are some tips I
whipped up for this game
that will help you get to the
later stages (which are a bit
better). These pokes are for
cartridge owners only:
•POKE 11615. X : Where X
is the number of lives you
want

•POKE 13857. Y : Where Y
is the clock speed [1-
fastest. 255-slowest)
•POKE 13860.165 : Stops
the clock

•POKE 18813.208 : Pre-
vents meanies from hurting
you, but still lets you bash
the pixels out of 'eml

Ghost 'n'
Goblins

Here are some pokes for
the classic game itself. Un-
doubtedly Chris Butler's
most triumphant program-
ming effort:

•POKE 2175, X : Where X
is the number of lives
•POKE 2198, C : Where C
is the colour of the sprites

• POKE 2203, Y : Where Y is
the level you wish to start
on

•POKE 2214, W : Where W

is any of the five weapons

(1-5)

•POKE 2240, 9 : Gives you

nine minutes to complete a

level

•POKE 3901, : Gives you

unlimited time

• POKE 4170, 10: Stops
sprite collision

•POKE 4242, 42: For smart
bomb

•POKE 7086, 10: To make
the zombies jump around
on Level 1

•POKE 7086, : To allow
you to walk through zom-
bies

•POKE 7086, 15: To make
the zombies turn into bags
when they appear
•POKE 7086, 12: To make
the zombies carry you
around

•POKE 7086. 13: To make
the zombies fool gravity!
•POKE 7086, 1 : To make
the zombies turn into spit-
ting plants
•POKE 7488, 56: To make

the plants spit in the oppo-
site direction

•POKE 7777, : Freezes
ALL monsters

•POKE 12707, 255 : Speeds
up the game by 101
•POKE 34042, 255 : To
make the zombies bring up
more pots.

Hmmm, now for a bit
about the program that I
wrote for this page! This lit-

tle routine allows the user
to play the music from just
about any game on the
market today!

And it explained how to
find music in games ... Un-
fortunately it could not be
printed due to space. So if
you want to get your hands
on this bit of coding, send
me a $5 postal order (made
out to Damian Caynes) and

your address, and the disk
will be winging its way to
you in a few days! The disk
also contains demos and a
text writer written.

Send any hints and tips,
letters, to:

Slartibartfast

4 O'Connor Drive

Bray Park NSW 2484

Send your authentic high scores to Phil Campbell,

PO Box 23 Maclean NSW 2463. Please mark

clearly whether your scores are for

C-64 or Amiga. And remember -

NO CHEAT MODES ALLOWED!

AMIGA

ARKANOID 976,548

AMAZED 130,500

BATTU SQUADRON 99,999,999(c]

BEYOND ICE PAL67,626(c|

BLOCKOUT 85,281

BOMGJACK 200,630

BUBBLE BOBBIE 1,200/460

BUGGY BOY 103,350

CHA5EHQ 5,504,010

CONT. CIRCUS 4,529,690

CRAZY CARS 86,064,640

CRAZY CARS 3,000,000,000

CRYSTAt HAMMER 43,847

CYBERBALL 475,000

DENARIS 53,900

DRAGON NINJA 246,400

DOUBLE DRAGON 124,630

ELIMINATOR 246,570

FLOOD 6,455

GEE BEE AIR RALLY 307,466

HYBRIS 1,826,075

IK+ 114/400

LMPOSS MISSION 66,380

INDIANA JONES

SS 1,420,450

KARATE KID It 54,000

LEATHERNECK 86,500

LIVE AND LET DIE 96,520

MAJOR MOTION 50,658

MENACE 996,481

MIDNIGHT RESIST 228,755

MINDWALKER 306,214

MOUSETRAP 71,977

NITRO 233,000 |e)

N. Z. STORY 546,695

OPERATION WOLF 344,800

OUTRUN 26,33 1,122(<:|

OFFSHORE WAR. 626,345

PACMANIA 3,250,140

PINBALL MAGIC 332,390

PINBALL WIZARD 171,150

PIONEER PLAGUE 35,412

PLUTOS 129/450

POPULOUS 307,860

POW 612,865

RAINBOW IS. 781,370

RAMPAGE 111,600

ROBOCOP 375,520

ROTOX183,050|c|

SID£WINDER811,250

SILKWORM (Helil 1,936,000

SILKWORM (Jeep) 622,500

SKWEEK 2/403,880

SPACE ACE 22,140

SPEEDBALL 17,650

Kamikaze Andy

Chris Turnadge

A Burbidge

C. Turnadge

Stephen Lark

David Thompson

V. v d Heyden

David Thompson

Angelo Augoslis

Amos Burbidge

Kristian Wehner

M. Summers

David Thompson

David Marsh

Peter Evans

Rod Matthews

J. Knight

Greg Muruo

Embah Beaton

Kamikaze Andy

Embah Beaton

Scott Southuril

D. Unwin

Phillip Nicoll

A G Smyth

Michael Summers

Shane Cropland

Merekee Beaton

Owen Webster

Kamikaze Andy

A. Augostis

P. Schumacher

David Rich

Andrew Gormry

Embah Beaton

John Boyle

Benjamin Moen

J. Booth

Amos Burbidge

Tracey Chilcott

Aaron Sanderson

Keir Sooby

David Rich

Maverick

David Thompson

J. Beaton

Kamikaze Andy

Michael Summers

Faye Doherty

Amos Burbidge

D. Everton

Daniel Everton

Embah Beaton

NevilEe Clarke

Amos Burbidge

STARWARS 5,722,822
STRIDER 113,950
SUPER CARS 1 7 races
SUPER HANG-ON 25,042,850
SWORD OF SODAN 364,750
TEEN.M.N.T. 546,600|c)
TEST DRIVE 131,0761c]
TEST DRIVE 2 309,397
TETRIS 10,101
TETRIX Level 232
THUNDERBLADE 336,520
THUNDERCAT5 522,300
TOWER OF BABEL 25,934(d
TURBO OUTRUN 100,260,819
TURRICAN 1, 302,650 W
TV-SPORTS F.BALL 189-0
TWINWORLD 24,640
TYPHOON 54,255
VIRUS 14,576
WHIRLIGIG 28,210
XENON II l,107,280|c)
ZOOM 67,051

C- Ming os wave 33

Kamikaze Andy

Maverick

David Worthy

Kamikaze Andy

James Leeken

Jordan Noglet

Charles Edmiston

Cheryl Marsh

Stephen Lark

Rod Matthews

Scott Southurst

Stephen Lark

Matthew Mantle

Stephen Lark

David McKinney

Carol love

Owen Webster

Amos Burbidge

Nathan Allen

Mark Porta

Steve Jones

COMMODORE 64

473,230

BATMAN
BATMAN 351,570
BANGKOK KNI, 36,800
BOMB JACK 344,560
BUBBLE BOB. 4,409,030(c)
BUGGY BOY 11 9,5 10
CHASE HQ 9,220,121
DOUBLE DRAGON 30,660
DOUBLED. 11255,190
FAST BREAK 136 to 9
GIANA SISTERS 105,2O0(cj
GRYZOR 203,900
H. MARADONA Level M
HAWKEYE 59,000
IKARI WARRIORS 2 67,800 [cj
INT. KARATE 139,300
LAST NINJA II 34.2 sec(e)
OPER. WOLF 168,789
OUTRUN 6,438,787
PAPERBOY 103,1 00(c|
POWERDRIFT 779,800
OUE-DEX 639
R-TYPE 1,280,500
RAINBOW ISLANDS 265,840
ROBOCOP 82,250
ROLLING T. 222,740
SALAMANDER 235,300
STREET FIGHTER 127,050
SUPER CYCLE 212,210
TEST DRIVE 36,144|e|
THUNDERBLADE 1,734 ,040
THUNOERCATS 57,500
TARGET REN. 330,450
TRAZ 54,560
UNTOUCHABLES 70,230
WONDER BOY 402,680

John Nunes

Joshua Smith

N. Van Heeswyk

J. Jacobs

John Nunes

John Nunes

Iceman

Joshua Smith

N. Heeswyk

Chris Byrne

Russell O'Neill

Paul Milrward

N. Heeswyk

Nick van Heeswyk

Iceman

Paul Mil I ward

But how, Nick?

Kishore Ludbey

Kishore Ludbey

John Nunes

Joshua Smith

Chris Byrne

Joshua Smith

Melissa Worboys

Tim Lockwood

Iceman

Paul Miltword

C. Byrne (clocked)

Iceman

John Nunes

T. Morrison

Chris Byrne

C. Byrne

Dave and Sue Upton

Simon Watford

John Nunes

Scores followed by (c) indicate
that the game has been completed

ACAR 60

Entertainment

Feel like a little horror? You'll need all the intestinal

fortitude you can muster up as PHIL CAMPBELL

takes on the latest release from Millenium...

HO

The
wind whips Jlf
the trees
into a fren- S

on the B-grade horror movie genre
popularised in the 1950s. It's a
spooky action adventure spanning
six levels, with nearly one hundred
action screens on each level - but
that's only

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that makes

zy as a

jagged fork of lightning crackles
through the sky. Count Valdemar
turns up his collar against the wind
and the rain as he struggles to turn
the rusted key in the huge iron gates.
The hinges groan as they turn for the
first time in decades. In moments,
Valdemar is standing at the door of
the foreboding stone mansion - his
family's ancestral home.

Valdemar had been curious when
the Real Estate Agent refused to show
him around - but now the hairs prick-
ling on the back of his neck gave him
the inkling of an answer. There is
something decidedly spooky about
the place. A sense of lurking evil.

He's absolutely right - beyond the
heavy oak door there's an incredible
array of ghouls, spectres, vampires
and zombies wandering through the
corridors of a house full of false walls,
hidden doors and rotating fireplaces.
Spooky stuff, but exactly what you
would expect from a game called Hor-
ror Zombies from the Crypt.

Horror Zombies is based squarely

Distributed by:

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RRP:

Amiga $59.95

also Tor Atari & IBM

Ratings:

Graphics: 78%

Sound: 85%

Instructions: 85%

Overall: 82%

MILLENNIUM

fireplace. This takes me safely out of
harm's way, and lets me grab the
dagger hanging on the wall above.

Obstacle number one safely nego-
tiated - now for a real challenge, The
scuttling rats in the next room are
deadly - one touch from them, and
it's back to the title screen. With
practice, 1 finally manage to avoid
them and reach the doorway at the
far end of the screen, gaining a pair
of "tippie-toe shoes'' in the process.
These are handy - activate them
and you can sneak past the mean-
est spook undetected.

I arrive in the next room feeling

I a little over-confident. My passage
is blocked by a huge, green gar-
goyle perched just beyond the door.

Horror Zombies so
infuriatlngly good is
the puzzles - almost
every screen has a
built in brain teaser
that will torment
you to the point of
desperation.

Horror Zombies
from the Crypt
opens in the cine-
ma. The lights dim,
the velvet curtains
sweep open across
the screen, and the
Amiga soundtrack
perfectly captures
the atmosphere of
the era. I roll a few
jaffas down the
aisle, then reach for
my joystick. The
action begins.

1 am Count
Frederick Valde-
mar. handsome, fearless
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on-screen
Valdemar is well animated - when I
say "jump", he jumps, responding in-
stantly to my joystick.

Valdemar is in an ornate drawing
room - surprisingly well kept for a
house inhabited by spooks. Maybe
they're house-proud. To the left
stands an uninhabited suit of ar-
mour. Let's make that "presumably
uninhabited." Suddenly, an eerie
green zombie lurches onto the
screen. As I soon discover, one touch
from this guy leads to a gruesome
death. But how do I avoid him? It
takes me some time to realise I
should follow him for three paces,
then leap for the mantel above the

He's deadly - as usual, one touch,
and it's back to the start. Next time I
know better, and use the special
shoes.

There's an identical gargoyle at
the other end of the room, so natural-
ly, I do the same. No-one can accuse
me of being a slow learner. A frustrat-
ing hour later, I realise that Gargoyle
number two is actually quite harm-
less. In fact, you need to push him
aside to gain access to the next level.

In spite of many nasty twists like
that - or maybe because of them -
Horror Zombies from the Crypt is a lot
of fun. Graphics are detailed, anima-
tion is good, and the sound-track wiil
keep you on the edge of your seat. Q

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Entertainment

Fresh from his encounter with a high tech MiG-29, flying ace PHIL CAMPBELL
decides to try something at the other end of the scale - a Sopwith Camel...

The wind rushes through my hair
as my Sopwith Camel cruises through
the peaceful blue sides over France.
Taking its name from the pronounced
hump over the bulky engine cowling,
the Camel is a real beast to fly - stub-

with the enemy - and the force of
gravity. So far, gravity is winning eve-
ry time.

There are various play modes,
from dog-fights against a single ene-
my plane to fully fledged missions.
There's also a
"strategy" mode, a
unique feature for
a llighl-sim. Here
you pit your wits
against an enemy
pilot using a com-
bination of a tra-
ditional war-
gaming "hex-
map" and a small
pane] showing
the animated
"real -time" view
from your plane.

Next time I did better, and managed
to claim one victim before I smashed
terminally into the turf.

Blue Max will naturally be com-
pared with Wings, a similar game re-
leased by the now sadly defunct Cine-
maware Corporation. Wings features
an almost identical World War I sce-
nario, and a similar "seat of the
pants" approach to the art of piloting.
But there are differences. Blue Max
leans much more heavily towards
strategy. And Blue Max is more tech-
nical, offering a range of accurately
modelled World War I planes to fly -
planes which are much harder lo
keep in the air. Wings, on the other
hand, has the edge when it comes to
atmosphere, Graphics are more de-
tailed, and the sound track is more
evocative of the era.

by airframe, front-heavy, with a ten-
dency to nose-dive given the slightest
opportunity. We're playing Blue Max,
an accurate simulation of aerial com-
bat as it used to be.

As a simulator. Blue Max is realis-
tic - it offers few modern frills, and
forces you to fly by the seat of your
pants. Strictly low- tech. but the ex-
citement is undeniable, with man and
machine pitted in a deadly stuggle

Distributed by:

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075 963 488
RRP:

Amiga $69.95

It's complex, but
it should be re-
warding in the
end.

Missions start
in the air - there's
no take off se-
quence to worry
about, though
you will need to
open the throttle
a little before you
try any fancy ma-
noeuvres. Con-
trols are simple and direct - the
plane climbs when you pull back on
the joystick, dives when you push
forward, and banks when you push
left or right. Climb too steeply and
the engine will sputter and die - more
than likely, you will too.

My first dog- fight was a messy af-
fair that lasted all of 30 seconds. I
was blown out of the sky before I
even saw the enemy Fokker Triplane.

In other words, it's a case of hors-
es for courses. If you're looking for a
tough game with lots of strategic chal-
lenge, try Blue Max, If it's softer enter-
tainment you're after, Wings has a
definite advantage. □

ACAR 63

Entertainment

fly ad is a classic shoot-
em-up with real style. And
to ugh I Boy, I can't even
make it through the first
level - but I intend to keep
trying.

Right from the beauti-
fully animated space voy-
ager intro, the game has
got real class. Graphics
sparkle, enemy ships are
fast and smooth, and razor
sharp reflexes are the or-
der of the day.

The story, if you're in-
terested, is as follows: Bar-
on Arkhon, a sinister ty-
rant, has imposed his law
over the entire world,
thanks to a time machine
that lets him send his ar-
mies to conquer different
eras through history. Your
mission is to track down
his forces and stop them -
to do it, you'll fly horizon-
tally scrolling missions

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through the eras of crea-
tion, prehistory, antiquity
and the middle ages.

Well, okay, I know you
didn't need to know any of
that. The bottom line is fl-
yad is a very playable
space blaster with classy
graphics and a not- too -
boring sound track. Highly
recommended.

Ratings:

Graphics
Sound
Gameplay
Overall

84%
78%
85%
82%

Distributed by:

Questor

02 662 7944

RRP Amiga $T.B.A.

C64 JT.B.A.

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Vietnam. The longest
and most controversial con-
flict in US history. The war
that damaged the psyche of
a nation so profoundly that
only another war could re-
pair it. A political minefield
- especially for anyone fool-
ish enough to take on the
job of President of the Unit-
ed States of America. That's
YOUR job, if you're playing
'NAM. As invading Viet
Cong guerillas fight to top-
ple the South Vietnamese
government, it's up to you
to mobilise air units, set
ambushes, protect Saigon -
and stay in power at the
White House.

'NAM is a strategy game,
pure and simple - but a
reasonably well decorated
one. At the political level,
actions are initiated from a
main menu - troop commit-
ments, air support and oth-
er "budgetary" actions are
set in motion by filling in
appropriate numbers on the
screen. Once approved by
the Senate, your decisions
are activated at the start of
the next calendar year.
Game time ticks over at any
of three pre -set speeds -
and it's essential that
you've laid your plans be-
fore December rolls around.

Military operations are
carried out on a map dis-
play - units are displayed
as boxes, which can be
equipped with helicopters
[if you've provided them as

president) and moved
around the map. As you
collide with enemy forces,
the size of your box will di-
minish as you suffer casu-
alties - the idea, of course,
is to obliterate the enemy
boxes before they do the
same to you.

There are a number of
pre-set scenarios, which
avoid the political side of
the game - take control of
forces at Khe San, or in the
famous Tet Offensive.

This is a complex game,
and you'll need to read the
manual before you play.
Military strategists will love
it - others should approach
with caution. Graphics are
a direct port from the Mac
version, and while they're
obviously fine on the high-
res Mac screen they lose a
lot in the translation. Rich-
ard Nixon's ugly mug is al-
most unrecognisable. Maps
and other screens are
much better, and overall
the game presentation
rates an okay.

Ratings:

Graphics 68%

Sound 71%

Gameplay 82%

Overall 73%

Distributed by:

Questor

02 662 7944

RRP Amiga $89.95

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ACAR 64

Entertainment

PRO
TENNIS
TOUR 2

Pro Tennis Tour was one
of my all time favourite
sport sims. The controls
were fast and natural - so
much so that you could al-
most imagine yourself run-
ning round the court. Now
there's a sequel. Pro Tennis
Tour U has a number of
new features - for a start,
you can create and save
your own player. You can
play almost any stroke,
with increased options like
lobs and smashes, and
players can now move
around the full area of the
court.

The default game is a
women's singles match,
and the ladies certainly
move round the screen
with ease and grace. As
soon as you pick up the
joystick, you feel you can
play - it's even more user
friendly than Pro Tennis 1 .

Creating your very own

Boris McEnroe is easy. A
menu screen lets you set
skill values for eight specif-
ic strokes - you start with
80 skill points to share
around the strokes, and
can only build up your
characteristics by practis-
ing and playing matches.

Pro Tennis Tour 11 is
hard disk installable - and
it's already earned itself a
permanent place on my
dhl!

Ratings:
Graphics: 83%
Sound: 82%
Gam ep lay: 86%
Overall : 84%

Distributed by:

Questor

02 662 7944

RRP Amiga $69.95

C64$T.A.B.

FISTS rURY

It may be nothing new
but what a great little pack-
age - a veritable box full of
action. What I am talking
about is Fists of Fury - Edi-
tion 2.

Fists of Fury has a de-
cidedly oriental flavour and
just a touch of the light-
hearted. All in all there are
four games in this package,
Shinobi, Ninja Warriors,
Double Dragon II and Dyna-
mite Dux. All those names
should be familiar to lovers
of action / violence / beat-
the - life - out - of - the -
other - guy games.

If you're one of the few
who are not familiar with
these games, here's a brief
rundown.

Shinobi - A group of chil-
dren have been kidnapped
and your mission (should
you decide to accept it) is to
rescue them - the use of
excessive violence is en-
couraged.

Ninja Warriors - I'm not
sure if there is a point to
this game. It seems that
you just have to be as vio-
lent as possible and your
score goes up.

Double Dragon II - Mari-
an has been killed and Billy
and Jimmy have not taken

her death very well at all -
in fact they are out for re-
venge. There is even a
chance that if they are suc-
cessful then they will be
able to bring her back to
life. Again violence is the
order of the day.

Dynamite Dux - this is
the kind of game you would
be happy for your younger
brother or perhaps even
your parents to play. Lucy
has been kidnapped and
your job is to get her back
(sound familiar?) The really
cute part about this one is
the way these guys punch.
They make Mike Tyson
look like he isn't really try-
ing.

Luke Tattersail

Ratings:

(average for all four games)
Graphics - 76%
Sound - 65%
Gameplay - 78%
Overall Value - 82%

Distributed by:

Mindscape

02 899 2277

RRP Amiga $59.95

C64 disk $39,95

C64 cass. $29.95

ACAR 65

Entertainment

"An absorbing diversion for players with an eye for
detail." Thus spake DAVID GLOVER as he assessed this

new Amiga game...

Alright Space Cadets, here's the
scenario: The Resistance (that's us) is
about to launch a major offensive
against the Empire (that's them). In
preparation for this, the Resistance
have captured several star ships, but
are lacking the essential power sourc-
es for these formidable craft, Klystron
Pods.

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Your mission is a simple one (in
theoiy). Working for the Resistance,
you are required to steal the pods
from the Empire's storage planets.
You must find the pod. hover just
above it, activate your ship's tractor
beam until the pod hooks on and

Ratings:

Graphics: 78%

Sound: 76%

Instructions: 82%

Overall: 79%

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ACAR 66

then thrust away skyward to
good of Mother Ship. Easy, eh?

There is at least one pod on each
planet, either on the actual surface
or cunningly tucked away in a cav-
ern. The first trick is to simply find
the thing (they look like spheres rest-
ing on plinths or monuments) and
get a hold of It. Then it's "pedal to the
metal" as you blast away to the sanc-
tuary aboard Mother who will take
you immediately to yet another plan-
et where you start your search anew.
This has to be one of
the most painstaking com-
puter games I've played.
You have a full screen in
front of you: the program-
mers (the Whiz Kidz -
based in Europe) have
thankfully used the PAL
formal - no missing third
of a screen! Your ship ap-
pears as a small on-screen
sprite floating in the black
abyss of space somewhere
above the planet.

A dab of thrust here, a
tweak of steering there,
and you'll be gliding and
hovering to your heart's
content. But beware, suc-
cessful flying calls for the
coolest and most sensitive
of hands. The controls are very
touchy indeed. The slightest mistake
or over-correction will see you plum-
meting to your doom on the planet's
surface.

Negotiating the caverns requires
absolute surgical precision - it's al-
most like threading a needle some-
times. The job is not made any easier
by the presence of a huge variety of
what the manual calls "Obstacles" -
15 different types in all - some pas-
sive, some active and some down-
right 'ornery. The "obstacles" become
more prolific and obstructionist as
the game progresses over its many,
many levels.

A blessed relief is the absence of a
time limit, although you have a finite
supply of fuel (refill tanks are availa-

ble on the planet) and six space ships
(lives) to play with. A small indicator
panel at the top of the screen gives
you the score and an up-to-date stat-
us on your resources.

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scans the cavern walls and destroys

all enemies. The LSD is very effective,

but also heavy on the fuel bill. Using

the LSD with manic glee, I found to

my dismay that it bled my tanks dry

and I made an "uncontrolled flight

into the ground".

Graphics on Zarathrusta are ade-
quate, though unspectacular. Sound
effects are good and loud, although a
little sparse at times. An excellent
sound track runs during the title
screens only. Control options are ei-
ther joystick or keyboard, although I
found the latter far more effective.

Zarathrusta is for those with pa-
tience and perserverance, with a

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steady hand and a cool head. It takes
co-ordinalion, anticipation and a
keen mind. Trigger-happy space cow-
boys looking for an R-Type or Xenon II
will be disappointed, since this game
is simply not designed for that sort of
action.

While Zarathrusta will not go
down in history as an Amiga games
classic, it's an absorbing diversion for
players with an eye for detail and
sensitive touch on the throttle but
ton. Q

Entertainment

bat, and a si

Blitzkrieg
at the

Blitzkrieg - Battle at the Ardennes is just one in a se-
ries of Wargames being distributed by a new UK publish-
er called "Storm Computers Ltd" - keep your eye on them.
Wargaraing and simulations are Increasing in popularity
and becoming increasingly sophisticated.

Of course, these games aren't for everybody! Blitzkrieg
- Battle at the Ardennes appeals to those with above aver-
age Intelligence, razor sharp minds, brute cunning, and
an appreciation of good timing and patience. Blitzkrieg -
Battle at the Ardennes simulates one of the most decisive
battles of World War II. On December 16th, 1944. coin-
ciding with several days of bad weather, Hitler ordered di
rective 'Wacht am
Rhine." The Ger-
man plan was to
strike weakened
Allied lines in Bel-
gium and Luxem-
burg and to break through and push
quickly to the Meuse River to capture
Liege and finally the the port city of
Antwerp. The capture of Antwerp was
essential
to post-
pone the
invasion
of Germa-
ny, and
give the
Fuhrer a
chance
to hon-
our his

promises of secret weapons that would win
the war. But the chances of success were remote. The
Germans were desperately low on fuel and the Allies had
firm control of the air, and strategic superiority in Eu-
rope.

One player, as either the German or Allied forces, can
battle against the computer, or two players can face each
other. There are a number of variables that can be set at
the beginning of the scenario - such as the standard of in-
telligence reports, relative condition of forces and the
weather in which the battle will be fought - to eliminate
any unreasonable advantages between players or comput-
er, and to provide an infinite range of batUe conditions.

The map or battlefield is an area composed of 1700
hexagonal cells (hexes). Each cell is assigned a ter-
rain type of mountain, plain, forest, city or Sieg-
fried line. As the attacker, one moves his units
around the map encountering and engaging units
of the enemy. The various types of units - infantry,
artillery, light and heavy armour - have combat
strengths and movement abiliUes associated with

them, which
modified

Bored with board-based war

games? Then this is just what you've

been waiting for. Join ANDREW

BAARTZ as he takes on the allied

forces at Ardennes ...

unit is adjacent to an enemy unit it can engage in com-
bat, and a surprise encounter while you are vulnerable is
usually disastrous. Blitzkrieg - Battle at the
Ardennes is simulations of a board game. If
youVe ever played these type of boards
games - you'll find a computer version just
heavenly. No more tables to look up. No
more fiddly calculations. Truly secret
moves! Possible move options highlighted in
advance. RealisUc use of terrain and intelli-
gence. Warnings over illegal moves. And no
disputes! (Because the computer's decision
are final). Just the mention of these advan-
tages will bring tears of joy to wargamers'
eyes.

I'd never played die particular board
game on which Blitzkrieg was based, so it
took me about an hour to really get into the
game and a bit of time browsing through
the manual. I am glad I persevered - be-
cause soon I was leading the German as-
sault towards Antwerp. The Allied air power
gave me a bit of a hammering, but the overcast days
protected me and my forces surged forward. Capturing
petrol dumps and cities. Organizing V2 raids. And hoping
for more overcast weather. Eventually my troops marched
on the objective. The actual fight for Antwerp was long
and bloody, but victorious.

Blitzkrieg Is a winner. These military games are a sort
of "Ultra-Chess." The challenge is irresistable! Q

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your supply
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move about.
Whenever a

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Entertainment

""GAM&MEN

This is a review of a compilation
package of software called Mega Pack
from Sydney company "The Games -
men." Mega Pack combines two car
racing games, an arcade movie spin-
off and a golf simulation.

•Number 1 - Jack Nicklaus' Great-
est 18 boles of Major Championship
Golf. Like the car games, this golf

THE DUEL

simulation comes from Accolade. It's
a couple of years old now, and not
quite as polished and detailed as Greg
Norman's Ultimate Golf, but still an
excellent simulation that's fun to
play. There is enough variety in the
game to keep you interested for many
long hours.

You choose whether you are male
or female, beginner or expert. There
are Pro, Mens, and Womens tees on
each hole. For beginners the comput-
er automatically selects a club for

Distributed by: (exclusively)
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RRP:

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C64 cass.
C64 disk
IBM

$59.95
$29.95
$39.95
$59.95

Ratings: (Average)

Graphics: 74%

Sound: 73%

Value 87%

Gameplay 76%

you, though you may change it if de-
sired. Pros must always make their
own choice.

You can play alone, or
with a combination of sev-
eral human and/or com-
puter players. You have a
choice of two real golf
courses and an imaginary
course made up of Jack's
favourite holes. Games
can be saved and re-
sumed later.

Jack Nicklaus' Golf Is
great fun to play, espe-
cially with a friend (or friends).

• Number 2 - Now for my least
favourite, Ghostbusters II. Perhaps
it's because I didn't see the second
movie, but I don't seem to be able to
get the hang of this one. And I mean
hang. That's where you start. You're
on a rope, about to be
winched through a man-
hole into the spooky depths
below the streets of Man-
hattan. Your object is to
make it through all the
ghosties to the bottom of
the hole and collect a sam-
ple of slime. I get to the
bottom all right - at termi-
nal velocity!

If you get through this
section, there are two others, which
no doubt make sense to you Ghost-
busters II fans, but it's all Macedoni-
an to me.

Now the car games. First is Test
Drive H: The Duel. It's almost identi-
cal to Test Drive I, except you can
choose to "Duel" with another car.
You get a view of your instrument
panel and the road ahead through
the windscreen. You can also see the
road behind in your rear mirrors. The
steering wheel turns in the appropri-
ate direction as you move the joy-
stick.

There are
some nice

opening
graphics
and SFX.
You get a
choice of
cars, in-
cluding the

Porsche 959 and Ferrari F40. There
are 12 skill levels, from beginner to
expert. You can buy disks with extra
scenery and cars.

The other racing game is Grand
Prix Circuit. It operates exactly like
Test Drive, except you pilot a formula
one racing car around a Grand Prix
circuit. The lower of the 12 levels
have automatic gear changing. At ex-
pert levels it is possible to blow up

GHOSTBUSTERS

your engine, spin out, or do other
damage due to bad driving.

You can decide how many laps in
each race, and what type of car you
drive, plus choose to drive in individ-
ual races, or the whole Grand Prix
Circuit.

GOLF

With budget packs like this, you
can't expect the year's latest releases.
But what you do get is last year's
great games, or this year's ordinary
ones. With that in mind. The Games-
men Megapack is good value. Both
Test Drive II and Grand Prix Circuit
are excellent games with a lot of at-
tention to detail. The golf game with
the long name is also a lot of fun.
Ghostbusters II isn't great, but it's
playable. So If you can only afford
one game, why not buy four instead?

GRAND PRIX

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Entertainment

PHIL CAMPBELL takes control of the latest in Soviet
military hardware as he checks out the flight-sim we've

all been waiting for...

Even though Soviet military hard-
ware copped a fair hiding in the Mid-
dle East, there's still a lot of interest
In the MiG-29 Fulcrum, a nimble jet
fighter producing speeds of Mach 2,2
at an operational ceiling of 16,800
metres. There's been an equal
amount of interest In MiG-29 FUL-
CRUM, the latest flight simulator from
Domark software. My mate Ken Simp-
son is literally begging for the chance
to try It out - and he will, just as soon
as I've got it licked.

slide manoeuvre described in the
manual. As usual, I had trouble even
getting off the ground - so the fancy
stuff can wait.

Cockpit instrumentation is com-
pletely authentic, and quite different
in concept to the Western equivalent.
The "Artificial Horizon and Turn" dis-
play, for example, shows your pitch
and roll on the same dial, while the
attitude meter features a moving
plane silhouette on a fixed back-
ground - the western version features

fortunate "accident." Apology accept-
ed, but it's up to me to arrange a few
accidents in return. Next time they fly
over the border, I'll be ready.

Taking off is easy - once you know
how. Simply open the throttle, release
the wheel brakes and you're trun-
dling down the runway at an alarm-
ing speed. Pull back on the joystick
and your nose rises gracefully into
the air.

The manual strongly recommends
controlling your MiG with a mouse -
simply pretend It's the top of a con-
trol suck, and move it accordingly. "A
switched joystick," says the manual,
"provides a crude but intuitive way of
controlling the plane." Suits me fine -
I'll trade crude for intuitive any day.
If you're Hying the IBM version, you'll
be using a standard analogue joy-
stick - probably the best option of all.

Moments after take-off from Tbli-
ski, I'm flying high above the famous
Great Wall, From this height it's more
like a great line - just a black trace
against the green of the earth. Sud-
denly, two Chinese planes appear -
yellow blips on the dark face of my
radar screen. Selecting my AA-8

The trouble is, MiG-29 has a host
of features, and a learning curve al-
most as steep as the 80 degree tail-

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Ratings:

Graphics: 78%

Sound: 77%

Instructions: 79%

Overall: 78%

a fixed plane symbol and a moving
background. Regular flight- simmers
will find this a little off-putting at
first.

After a quick stint in the training
academy, I was keen to try a full
scale mission. Never mind the fact
that I failed the training session -
real pilots might tram for a full year,
but they only have one life to play
with, I can afford to be cocky. There
are five missions to choose from,
each with an authentic Soviet feel. I
chose assignment 'Yellow Dragon," a
sortie in the skies above the Great
Wail of China.

Chinese Shenyang fighters have
been illegally intruding on Soviet air-
space towards Tbliski aerodrome.
When an aging Soviet Su-21 fighter
challenged them yesterday it was
shot down. The Chinese ambassador
sent his deepest regrets for this un-

"Aphid" air to air missile, I lock onto
my target and hit the fire button. Mo-
ments later, there is a puff of smoke
on the horizon. Moments later again,
I plough nose first into the ground.

Rule Number One. Don't watch
puffs of smoke on the horizon.
Watch your altimeter.

MiG-29 Fulcrum is a solidly built
ilight-sim. with plenty of features to
play with - including "missile -eye
views" of the acUon, just like the
"slam-cam" coverage of the Iraqi deci-
mation. On the Amiga version, graph-
ics and sound effects set no new
standards - adequate, but not bril-
liant. Even so, they don't spoil the fla-
vour of the game.

Versions of MiG-29 are available
for the Amiga and suitably souped-up
IBM compatibles, □

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Entertainment

by Michael Spiteri

Welcome once again to the dark caverns of The Realm - the place where adventurers all
over Australia turn for help in their quests. If you are stuck in any adventure games, send

your problems to the following address:
Adventurers Realm, 22 Bridle Place,
Pakenham, Vic 3810
If role-playing-games (RPG's) are your kettle-of-Jish then give
Kamikaze Andy (alias Andrew Phong) a bell at:
The Dungeon P.O.Box 315,
Maddington, WA 6109
Always enclose a stamped addressed envelope when
writing to the Realm.

As promised, hint sheets for Cas-
tle of Terror and 7Z7Z7.7. have been
dropped from the list of free hint
sheets. There are still a couple left
over if you desperately need them.

With two hint sheets out of the
door, we now have room for even
more new hint sheets:

Zak McKracken and Indy (Jones) .

Yes folks, the Lucasfilrn games
have been puzzling adventurers from
all over Australia, so It seems fitting
that these hint sheets are made avail-
able. You can thank. Kamikaze Andy
for the Indy hint sheets, and many
many adventurers for the Zak hint
sheet.

Readers of the Realm are entitled
to up to four different hint sheets, as
long as a stamped addresses envelope
is enclosed. The only address to write
to for hint sheets is:

Free Hint Sheets, 12 Bridle Place,
Pakenham, Vic 3810

Guild of Thieves. Jinxter, Pawn,
Zork 1,11,111. Maniac Mansion. Bard
Tale 1,11,111, Hitchhikers Guide. Faery
Tale, Hobbit, Never Ending Story.
Fish, Deja Vu, Uninvited, Dracula,
Borrowed Time.

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More brainy adventurers to add to
the ever-increasing list of adventure
clever contacts. Always enclose a
stamped addressed envelope when
writing to a clever contacts.

Michael Walsh is a temporary
contact until he starts uni next year.
His address is:

P.O. Box 136, Horsham. Vic 3400.
He can help in: Zork 1-3, Stationfall,
Planetfall, Starcross, Lurking Horror,
ZZZZZ, Rigels Revenge, Bastow Man-
or, Adventureland, Pirate Adventure,
Secret Mission. Pool of Radiance,
Azure Bonds, Silver Blades, Hulk,
Spiderman, and Dracula.

Bruce Gilbert of 88 Woodward
Circle. Marangaroo. W.A 6064 can
offer help in: Larry 1,3, Shadow of
Beast 1,2, Dejavu, Maps for Dunge-
on master. It Came from Desert,
Ghostbusters II, Operation Stealth,
Police Quest II, Heroes Quest, Mean-
Streets, F19 Stealth Fighter, Immor-
tal, Dragons Lair, KingsQuest 1,3,
Space Quest 1.2. Uninvited, Shadow-
gate, Dreamzone.and Zak McKrack-
en.

Finally, a very big thank you to
out clever contacts, the unpaid work-
ers who provide an excellent service
to our readers. Good one, guys!

Firstly a very big thank you to:
•Stuart George (Springvale.VIC)
•Michael Bathols (Narrogin, W.A.)
•Michael Walsh (Horsham, Vic)
•Kathy Kupresak (Bonython, ACT)
for the enormous amount of hints
sheets, solutions and tips kindly do-
nated to the Realm. I am sure they
will get many adventurers out of a
sticky spot.

David Upton suggests that adven-
turers should exchange with each
other completed adventure games.
Sounds like a good idea, but I'm not
sure it will do the deteriorating Aus-
sie software market any good. I can't
see any problems if the games are no
longer available, though. What do
other Realmers think?

$1000 is what you can win by
solving the C64/128 graphic adven-
ture game - Space Explorer. The chal-
lenge has been set by Gary McCleary
Software, Watch for the advert.

Also, there are continuing pleas
for The Official Adventurers Realm
Hint Book, It is out soon for only
$9,00 at most newsagents and com-
puter dealers. If you cannot to seem
to find it, ring (02) 398 5111.

Adam Read of Morphette Vale is
shifting to England, and wanted to
know if the magazine is available
there. I don't think we have reached
that far overseas . . . .ye t, however if
you ring up Darrien Periy {thats a
girl) on 02 3985111 before you leave,
I am sure a subscription could be or-
ganised.

Entertainment

Smart Adventurers

Many thanks to all the contribu-
tors to this section of the magazine. If
you were stuck a little while back,
then instant relief could be belowl

Game: Aztec Tomb Adventure
For: Mark Bilney (Feb issue - dis-
guised as Jan issue).
From: Shelley Duval
Help; The rope can be found when
you are still at the beginning, in the
house. Go ladder, get chest, down, s,
n, look bed, go trapdoor, look, gel
cloak, wear cloak, examine cellar, get
key, open chest, get rope, gel sword.

Game: Ring of Power
For: Mark Bilney (Feb Issue)
From: Shelley Duval
Help: The game only (lashes the pass-
word on and off just the once, and
only if you start the game from
scratch. Sometimes it won't show it al
all. However, when on the final level
you go to the shopkeeper in the lar
bottom right hand corner, he will re-
veal the password.

Game: Neuromancer
For: Colin Smith (Feb issue)
From: Alex Stivala and Stuart George
Help: At the start of the game, use
the PAX to send a message to Armi-
tage which simply contains your ID
number, and he will deposit 10000
credits in your account.

Open an account with the Bank of
Zurich (link code Bozobankj then use
the Tactical Police database to have
Larry Moe arrested, so you can get to
the Panther Moderns meeting room
and talk to Lupus. Ask him about Ga-
meinschaft, and he will tell you an ac-
count number which you can use to
transfer money from Bank Gameins-
chaft to your account (link code
Bankgemein).

Register yourself as an employee
with Hosaka to pick a week's salary,
and by using the cyberspace database
you can get 500000 from the Bank of
Berne.

Game; Asylum

For: Scott Pitcher (March issue)

From; Alex Stivala

Help: To stop the exterminator from

fogging the pestilence, you must tie
him up with the rope. The rope can
be found in one of the corridors.

Games: Pro -Pack Adventurer Games
For: Brian Blackwell Jnr (Feb issue)
From: Stuart George
Help: In Temple Curse, to cross the
pool, just say ROW and a direction.

In Last Planet, to look at the draw-
ing try climbing the stalagmite. To get
the rope you have to cut it.
In Island of Spies, get the parachute,
wear parachute, pull lever, pull rip-
cord, remove parachute, and crawl
out.

Troubled Adventurers

The Realm received a handful of
problems this month, with games
that until recently have been unfamil-
iar among these pages. If you can
help these poor souls out - please do!1

• Tony Pappas of Finley in NSW is
stuck in Strangeloop. First of all, he
would like to know how to get the Ro-
bot Manual from the litter Anti-Matter
Man without getting killed. Also, what
does he have to give the robot that
waffles on about putting out brief
candles?

• Julie Stearman of Blaxland in NSW
wants to know how to deal with the
Great Head in the game Wizard qfOz.
Juke says at this stage of the game
the parser becomes hostile.

• Getting out of the house is the prob-
lem facing Matt and Luke Walsh of
Alphmgton in Victoria. The game
where this house exists is The Jet-
sons.

• Jim Fang of Brentford Square in
Victoria asks if anyone can help get
past the Air-Level in the game Moebi-
us?

• Lisa Ferraro of Mt Gambler is South
Australia is really stuck deep in the
Black Cauldron. Firstly, what does
she do after the Gwydant has taken
the cauldron? What does she do at
the casUe other than freeing the prin-
cess and the prisoner? What else
does she do with Guigi oilier than
give him cookies? Finally, what is
something else she can give the
witches besides the sword?

• Axl Batroc is having lots of trouble
in Neuromancer. Trying to get Corn-
link V6 is becoming a real headache
for Axl. □

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Entertainment

Katfazetody

Well, the long awaited Amiga
CDTV is almost upon us. and this
month the Dungeon takes a look at
the upcoming as well as potential
RPGs that will appear on CD-ROM.

From all reports, there are nearly
100 software products for the CDTV
within the first three months of its re-
lease, half of which are games. It is
important to note that because of the
unusual input device the CDTV uses
(an infra-red remote control just like
your VCR or TV controller), there
might be some modifications made to
the first few games on offer.

Later in the year, Commodore will
bring out its mouse and keyboard op-
tions for the CDTV (both of which will
also use infra-red input technology).
This is good news, because most of us
know that complex adventures and
role playing games require mouse and
keyboard to operate efflciendy.

First wave

Well, what are the first adventures
to be released? From Cinemaware
come CDTV conversions of Defender
of the Crown and It Came From The
Desert. Both will be direct conversions
of their Amiga originals, but will fea-
ture CD audio, digitized speech in-
stead of text responses, and in the
case of the latter game, digitized film
footage of real live actors!

According to Cinemaware, this will
be the trend for the "First Wave" of
CDTV games. They will be direct con-
versions of established tides, but with
added music, complete speech dia-
logue, and digitized stills. (Ed: Late re-
ports indicate that Cinemaware is now
defunct - let's hope these games
aren't!)

Second Wave

At this stage, companies are trying
to fill in the 500MB of CD space with
such enhancements. When the "Sec-
ond Wave" of games arrives, CDTV
owners will get more original products
that will make further use of the
(hopefully by now released) mouse/
keyboard.

Origin will put out a CDTV version
of its spectacular space -combat simu-
lator, Wtng Commander, by the end of
the year. Ultima VII is due for CDTV
sometime next year, as is Wing Com-

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mander II. Sierra's upcoming releases
like Leisure Suit Larry V and Police
Quest HI (due at the end of 1991)
might be CDTV candidates.

More definite games include
ICOM's Sherlock Holmes: Consulting
Deiectiue, FfL's Dungeon Master, Lu-
casfllm's lndy and the Last Crusade
(with film clips of Harrison Ford as
fndyfl, and the Broderbund Carmen
Sandiego series.

An original adventure game due
out soon is Detectron, from Defender
of the Crown designer - Kellyn Beck.
This game is a detective adventure,
and like others mentioned above, fea-
tures digitized footage and lots of digi-
tized speech.

Because Detectron was designed
with the standard CDTV remote con-
trol in mind, the options are a litUe
more limited than in other games. For
example, each screen will have three
options that you can select via remote
control, and only three options. The
storyline will develop as you get fur-
ther into the game (something like a
Choose Your Own Adventure system).
Beck emphasizes that Detectron is an
"exploratory" game, giving users the
chance to see how the mystery turns
out differently with each choice.

Success Factors

The eventual success of the CD1V
format will hinge on the speed at
which Commodore can produce two
things.

The first is greater software sup-
port (although many companies have
signed up. some giants like Electronic
Arts are still wary of CDTV). A strong
advertising campaign and, more im-
portantly, consumer support from
Commodore itself is vital for healthy
CDTV sales.

The other important factor is how
fast Commodore can come up with Its
promised CDTV converter for current
Amigas. With over two million Amigas
sold, Commodore can make a much
better case for more software support
if it can show that there are potential-
ly two million CD1V owners out there
already with the release or the CDTV
adaptor.

Commodore also needs to release
the mouse and keyboard options for
CDTV very soon, as the remote con-
trol input device is very limited. I can
hardly imagine how something as
complex as SimEarth can be comfort-
ably handled with the remote control
device.

CDTV is an exciting prospect for
all Amiga and computer owners, not
only for adventurers. □

Realm

Social Phobia

For the Commodore 128 and IBM-
PC. Available via public domain.

Did you know that really good text
adventurers sUll exist? The public do-
main libraries are full of them, and if
you are looking for a good example or
one then get your hands on Social
Phobia, written by regular Realmer
Alex Stivala and his merry crew.

This adventure should please sci-
ence fiction fans, as it is based
around two Mars satellites whose in-
habitants are constantly at each oth-
ers throats. On one side you have the-
trendy fearful Phobians, and on the
other you have the ugly looking De-
monic merphs.

The war between the two races
does not involve physical weapons,
but psychological ones.

Anyhow, it becomes apparent that
the Phobians are losing, and they
need more brainy beings to help them
in the war. In their quest for more
brains, you somehow get leleported
from your Volkswagon,

So. you think the aim of the game
is to help the Phobians succeed in
their plight against the merphs and
become the greatest hero since Flash
Gordon?

If you are looking for a good
text adventure then check out
Social Phobia, written by
regular realmer Alex Stivala
and his merry crew.

Wrong! You decide to wimp out by
not getting involved in this alien mind
feud, and work out a way to return
home. So begins the game of Social
Phobia. The game is just pure detailed
text with some humour scattered here
and there. It features a full sentence
parser, and a fairly reasonable vocab-
ulary. There are not too many loca-
tions to visit, and the problems vary
from straightforward to downright dif-
ficult.

My main criticism is that the play
does tend to get knocked off fairly eas-
ily without much warning.

This game will probably only set
you back a few dollars, and will sup-
ply you with many hours of fun and
frustration. It most certainly gets the
Realm's seal of approval! □

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